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...modest regional school to the very top ranks of American higher education. The ascension of this brash Western upstart has come as both a shock and a challenge to such Ivy League powerhouses as 352-year-old Harvard and 242-year-old Princeton, where the notion of academic endeavor is firmly associated with rigorous winters and a stern Puritan work ethic. Reflecting the early contempt heaped on Palo Alto by the Eastern establishment, one 19th century editorialist wrote that "Stanford's great wealth can only be used to erect an empty shell...
Eventually, however, the gods smiled on the ambitious endeavor. The rosy- fingered dawn that broke over the Greek air force base at Heraklion last Saturday was accompanied by only the merest zephyrs, perfect flight weather for Daedalus. Temperatures were mild, in the high 60s, ensuring that Kanellopoulos would not burn himself out during the long flight. By 3 a.m., most members of the team were awake. Some made last-minute checks of the weather, while others gently assembled the spindly pink-silver-and-white plane and carried it to the runway. At 7:06 Kanellopoulos eased his 156-lb. frame...
Although the Ruggles in Harvard Square is still not turning a profit, Starsield said he was able to continue with the enterprise because his original pizzeria, located in Boston, has been successful enough to support the Cambridge endeavor...
Parmelee's session with the President was part of Odyssey Project, a joint endeavor of Time Inc. and the District of Columbia public schools. The program's participants discuss heroes in literature, then write profiles of Washington notables whom they admire. This year the ten students who took part in the project picked, among others, a city official, a sports star -- and one U.S. President. After choosing Reagan last winter, Parmelee was astonished when his interview was granted. His article on the President, including pictures by Odyssey Student Photographer Marta Effinger, will appear in Looking for Heroes, the Odyssey Project...
...headquarters in Springfield, nicknamed the Blue Vatican for its aqua color, churns out 23 tons of Gospel literature a day and administers a $142 million annual budget. Half the money supports a foreign effort that fields an impressive 1,530 missionaries. Swaggart's suspension is particularly significant to this endeavor. Not only did his ministry contribute $23 million to missions in the past two years, but most converts at Swaggart's worldwide revivals were referred to Assemblies congregations. The group now has 15.8 million members overseas, compared with just 4 million...