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Cross-Fertilization. This month Burns opened another college that appears to be unique in the U.S.-one teaching everything in Spanish. The goal of Elbert Covell College is "education for life in the Americas in the 20th century." It will stress math, science, business and schoolteaching. Equally important, it will throw together 250 dissimilar students-two-thirds of them from Latin America, the rest Americans fluent in Spanish. Already on hand are 60 students from the U.S. and 14 Latin American countries. Faculty is still a problem. Covell has spent months trying to find a Spanish-speaking physicist, for example...
Reaching Out. As United Fruit's fortunes darkened, the company's directors, led by their newly elected chairman, Boston Investment Banker George Peabody Gardner Jr., 44, desperately reached outside the banana business to find a president who would remake the company. Their choice: Thomas Elbert Sunderland, 54, previously vice president and general counsel of Standard Oil of Indiana...
Delaware. As board chairman of a prosperous Maryland fertilizer company, conservative Democrat Elbert Nostrand Carvel, 50, has inevitably been the butt of some unprintable political jokes. As a campaigner. Republicans have learned, he is no laughing matter. Elected lieutenant governor in 1944, he won the state's top job four years later, and was best known for his school-building program. Farm-fancying Bert Carvel is a bland, high-pitched orator, but he is widely credited with having the shrewdest political brain among top Delaware Democrats...
...Thomas Elbert Sunderland, 52, vice president and general counsel of Standard Oil Co. (Ind.), was named president and chief executive officer of the trouble-torn United Fruit Co., succeeding Kenneth H. Redmond, 64, retiring after 42 years with the company. Sunderland, who admits he "knows nothing about bananas," is an expert in the antitrust problems that plague United Fruit; under a 1958 antitrust decree, United Fruit must sell off some of its properties, give up 35% of its import business. A Michigan-born lawyer, Sunderland saw World War II service in the Army Air Forces, became a Standard director...
Born. To Margaret Truman Daniel, 35, daughter of ex-President Harry Truman, and Elbert Clifton Daniel Jr., 46, assistant to the managing editor of the New York Times', their second son; in Manhattan. Name: William Wallace...