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Intellectual Compact. All this got Oakland into trouble from the start. Students looking forward to the glamour of college complained that no-frills Oakland was "a very lonely place, like a concrete cell." It was even lonelier after the first quarter, when one grade out of every six was an F. Though the school magnanimously allowed flunkers to repeat courses-and hence got charged with junking its intellectual aims-nearly 400 of the original freshman class of 570 have dropped out. The few hard-working survivors on the vast campus endured everything from overblown rumors of faculty dissension...
...risen from 25 to 54 members, 90% of them with Ph.D.s. Last fall the trimester system was adopted, allowing a scant seven weeks of vacation (v. 19 at most colleges) and permitting graduation in 2⅔ years. Last week Chancellor Durward Varner jauntily described his school as "a compact model which provides a rich intellectual experience...
Predictably, the trend is to luxury and gadgetry. Small runabouts with rakish lines, chrome fittings, and decorator-styled upholstery look more and more like cars, presumably to attract diffident womenfolk. Oceangoing yachts sport bulkhead-to-bulkhead carpeting and baby blue staterooms. New compact radar sets, depth-sounders and other electronic gear cram the cockpits. Pushbutton winches eliminate the need to "weigh" anchor. Hot-water heating, cold-water cooling, seawater evaporators and adapters for turning iceboxes into electric refrigerators lure the boat owner. Apparently it takes a heap of gadgets to make a boat a home...
...Simple, compact and rugged, the Minuteman is 54 ft. tall, weighs 60,000 Ibs., which makes it about half the size of the Titan II. Liquid-fueled missiles are largely crafted by hand, but Boeing, prime contractor for the Minuteman, will treat the weapon much like a production-line item. Says Boeing's Chief Engineer Ernest ("Tex") Boullioun: "It will take us a year to install the first 150 in their silos, nine months for the next 150, six months for the next 150, and after that we expect to put 150 in every three months...
...just put out what is, to our mind, the definitive recording of Schumann's Four Symphonies (Epix SC 6039/BSC 110). With them are Leon Fleischer and a sparkling performance of the Piano Concerto in A Minor, and that perfect niche-filler, the Manfred Overture. The whole is a wonderfully compact way of having the best of Schumann all to oneself...