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Going Public. The old pattern of universities in Canada was Roman Catholic-run colleges in Quebec, private universities modeled on Oxford or Edinburgh in the English-speaking eastern provinces, public universities modeled on U.S. land-grant schools in the West. The big push is shattering the pattern. Because of the need for funds, schools are leaning upon government until there is scarcely a truly private college left in Canada. Provincial governments pick up nearly 40% of the operating costs of the colleges, the federal government about 20%, tuition 27%, and private sources the rest. Typical effect: the French Catholic University...
Married. Sir Compton Mackenzie, 82, crusty old man of Scottish letters (96 biographies, plays, essays and novels, among them Tight Little Island); and Lilian Macsween, 46, spinster sister of his late wife; he for the third time; in Edinburgh...
...reckoning is at hand, Lord Cromer told a gathering of Scottish bankers in Edinburgh. The $3 billion international rescue that saved the Brit ish pound last November "no more guarantees our future than Dunkirk presaged swift victory in 1940." If the government is to prevent hardship for every British family, he said, it must quickly and decisively put its house in order by boosting productivity and cutting back on its spending schemes. Said he: "I only hope we face up to this need whilst there is still time...
Married. Michael Chaplin, 18, Charlie's eldest son by Fourth Wife Oona O'Neill, himself a Beatle-haired London drama student; and Patricia Johns, 25, London bit-part actress; in a civil ceremony; in Edinburgh, Scotland, where the legal age is 16, thus getting around Daddy's refusal to give permission. Mom did not seem to mind; she was only 18 when she married Charlie...
...Back in Edinburgh for the music festival, Todd soon finds his apartment burgeoning with Nicole, Elke, two teenagers, an Italian cellist, and some spongy smart talk. As a friend who pops by on occasion, Classicist Judith Anderson clowns with the air of a lady willing but unable to whip out a bare bodkin and turn the arrant nonsense into a bloody good show. Would that she could...