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...president of Parsons, once a financially starved Presbyterian school, Roberts has methodically carried out his program for success. He increased Parsons' enrollment from 212 to 4,900, and upped student fees from $1,030 a year to $1,160 a trimester. Roberts has been able to erect $20 million worth of buildings on campus and push the average faculty pay from about $3,000 a year to more than $15,000-third highest in the nation. This year, while almost every school in the nation is running bigger deficits than ever, Parsons recently reported a neat annual profit...
...Wash ington Place where he was born, and found the site occupied by a dreary clothing factory. "Its effect for me," he wrote later, "was of having been amputated of half my history." It also rankled James that the city of New York had not seen fit to erect a small monument at the birthplace of a man who had made his mark in American letters. Now New York University has corrected the oversight by unveiling a plaque on its Brown Building on Washington Place: NEAR...
...significant part of Henry Luce's genius was his ability to bring together talented people of widely varying backgrounds and points of view to work in concert. Though he was a courtly and compassionate man, Luce also had the magisterial presence of a Koussevitzky. Tall, erect, with clear blue eyes that could rake a room like a laser beam?or twinkle as merrily as Mr. Pickwick's ?he talked with a staccato concentration of word and thought that one associate described as "jammed machinegun" style. And, as his pastor, Dr. David H. C. Read, noted last week, "he listened...
...Apollo, built by North American Aviation, is by far the biggest, most sophisticated space vehicle ever made. It is to the Gemini what a Boeing 747 is to a DC-6-roomy enough for a man to stand erect and move about, equipped with space luxuries such as hammocks for stretched-out sleeping, hot and cold water, even a toilet...
...Marjorie Merriweather Post Close Hutton Davies May is still slender and pridefully erect-but she is far more than merely a remarkably handsome woman. She is heiress to a food fortune of well over $100 million, a celebrated hostess and philanthropist, an avid horticulturist, antiquary, boxing enthusiast and square-dance fancier. In Palm Beach (where she winters), the Adirondacks (where she summers) and Washington, D.C. (where she spends the spring and fall), Mrs. Post is a grande dame of high society. "Everything she touches turns to beauty," says Lady Bird Johnson...