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Though not everyone would agree on just what is the most important educational job in the U.S., the presidency of the Ford Foundation clearly comes close. Were the foundation nothing more than what a New Yorker wag called it-"a large body of money completely surrounded by people who want some"-it would wield power enough. But it has used its money to tackle problems-and try solutions-on a scale grander than private philanthropy has ever known. It has more than a third ($2.7 billion) of all the foundation money in the U.S. It spends at the rate...
...pure white instead of rough and creamy white, as in Pekin ducks. Their necks are set at a different angle, and their temperaments are placid instead of scrappy. Jesuit Leroy reports: "I didn't sleep for nights after we discovered the changes. It is wonderful to be close to the workings of creation...
Death Valley Days. U.S. Borax is only a corporate infant-formed last year by the merger of oldtimers Pacific Coast Borax Co. and U.S. Potash Co. But it has close to a natural monopoly, holds 63% of the free world's deposits, including the only big deposit of sodium borate ore (at Boron), the cheapest and easiest type of the mineral to mine and process. The company's ancestry is the story of borax mining in the U.S. The discovery of borax in a California hot spring in 1856 set off feverish prospecting and mining that eventually made...
HELICOPTER TOURS of the French château country will be started this summer by Belgium's Sabena World Airlines. It will offer nine-hour trip for close view of twelve Loire Valley châteaux (price: $72), plus 80-minute trip over six castles (price...
...Hodgkin's disease, at 33, Rumanian-born Pianist Dinu Lipatti played for the last time in public, at the 1950 International Festival in Besangon, France. To keep the date, he overrode his doctor's and his wife's pleas not to play, was fortified with drugs. Close to fainting at the keyboard, he had to omit the last brief selection on the program, Chopin's Waltz No. 2 in A Flat. Now, in a 2-LP Angel album, record buyers can listen to that last amazing recital and sample the artistry that made Lipatti...