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...reaches even into the traditional hangout of freedom, the fraternity. Dean Peters last year introduced the novel idea of having a resident adviser in the various frat houses. "Ten fraternities have done this voluntarily; with the great improvement this practice has brought about, we hope it will grow and expand," Peters says. Still, for all its committees and representatives, the Dean's office likes to posture itself as a benevolent despot. Peters explains, "There is a certain number of necessary rules. We try to interfere as little as possible with student affairs...
TEEN-AGE CREDIT plan will be tested by Sears, Roebuck, which will give up to $50 credit to youngsters 14 and over, with $5 monthly repayments. If tryout in 18 stores is successful, Sears will expand service...
...annals of British politics. Overcoming a slashing Labor Party challenge, he had won his own mandate to rule Britain for the next five years. He had won, too, the right to speak for England at the summit he had done so much to promote, and to conserve and expand the Tory-fostered prosperity that had cracked the class lines of British society and provided the votes for his victory...
...young Russians into the lands beyond the Urals is almost certainly designed in part to populate the empty reaches of Siberia before Red China grows much moire powerful. Nor does the Kremlin make much effort to disguise the fact that it would be happier to see China expand toward Southeast Asia than toward the north...
After 53 years on the concert stage since his childhood debut as a violin virtuoso, Jascha Heifetz, 58, will soon expand his previous teaching activities, be a full professor of music at the University of California at Los Angeles. He will teach pupils who will get no grades, credits or medals for their showings. Why this new vocational tangent? "Violin playing is a perishable art," explained Heifetz. "It must be passed on as a personal skill; otherwise it is lost." Then Heifetz fondly recalled his old violin professor in czarist Russia: "He said that some day I would be good...