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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...automakers from 20 countries last week displayed their wares at the 53rd Paris Motor Show, which is Europe's biggest, safety came second. To be sure, the U.S.-owned entries, such as General Motors' West German Opel and English Ford, have as standard items in their '67s some of the features that their U.S. cousins have-including padded dashboards and emergency flasher lights. The Europeans, too, are offering disc brakes, recessed knobs and fixtures, both front and rear safety-belt anchorages, plus such equipment as impact-absorbing bodies (France's Renault and Britain's Rover...
...regardless of need and, in some instances, serve the donor's particular interests. Freshmen at Emory, for example, can compete for one $500 scholarship by writing an essay on the topic: "We Georgians are often our own worst enemies when we intentionally use colloquialisms in preference to standard English." Dozens of colleges have set up special scholarships or loan funds aimed at helping Negro students...
...advanced by Producer Henry Saperstein, Allen bought up a ludicrously lousy Japanese thriller that was made in glorious TohoColor and should have been confiscated as contraBond. For a couple thou on top of that, he eliminated some Japtrap, erased the Japanese talk track and dubbed in some English dialogue that transforms the story into Allengory and the characters into kooky-yacky...
Love, learning-and life-are what education is all about; yet somehow U.S. schools never quite get really involved in any of them. So says Kenneth Eble, 42, the ebullient chairman of the English department at the University of Utah, who takes whimsical yet passionate whacks at his own profession but never falls into the academic solemnities that riddle most books of this kind. "To learn," writes Eble, "is to love." Students ought to revel in discovery, he adds, but educators, from grade to grad school, have a knack for taking most of the joy out of learning...
...they must reveal his deepening moral crisis. Once behind the Iron Curtain, he finds Roper and discovers that the scientist did not turn his coat after all: he was shanghaied. Furthermore, nobody really wants him: neither the Russians, who accepted him only as a useful political pawn, nor the English, who jobbed him for much the same reason. Hillier also finds that nobody wants him either. He was sent to Russia so that an assassin, hired by his own intelligence agency, could erase a mind already too full of dangerous secrets...