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...become a time for vast migrations of college faculties. Nearly gone is the day when a professor had no choice but to work on his book at home or teach to earn extra cash. Rising university salaries and abundant foundation generosity have released him for exotic research and farflung adventure. Within the last decade, the number of professors going abroad during the school year nearly tripled, to a peak of 3,954 in 1965-66. During the summer, about 40% of the nation's 325,000 university teachers remain behind to teach...
...palm-topped flyspeck in the Indian Ocean 1,100 miles southwest of Ceylon, Diego Garcia is the first in a series of four strategically located islets that may ultimately buttress Britain's "farflung battle line" of bases (see map). Along with the Seychelle atolls of Aldabra (pop. 100), Farquhar (172) and Des Roches (112), Diego Garcia & Co. will make up a new colony called the British Indian Ocean Territory. Their cost to Britain: $8,400,000 in remuneration for commercial facilities, mainly copra sheds and fishing fleets...
...that the bill provides for federal voting registrars to be sent into states and counties where there are literacy tests and where 50% of the citizens of eligible age and residence either were not registered as of Nov. 1, 1964, or did not vote in the 1964 elections. This farflung net would catch a good many states and counties where hardly anyone pretends that discrimination exists: a county in Maine, for instance, and the entire state of Alaska...
...chairman: Michigan State President John A. Hannah, 55. Republican Hannah served as Assistant Secretary of Defense for Manpower and Personnel from 1953-54, was an NRA poultry code administrator in the early 19305, became President of Michigan State in 1941 and nursed it from a modest college to a farflung, football-happy giant. As Assistant Secretary, Hannah had a hand in implementing desegregation in the armed forces. No fire-eater, he once expressed cautious sympathy for "local conditions," calling integration a goal to be reached by an "evolutionary process...
Died. Margaret Thompson Biddle, 59, Montana-born mining heiress, ex-wife of wealthy Soldier-Diplomat Anthony J. Drexel Biddle Jr., grande dame of American society in Paris since World War II, sometime authoress (Women' of England) and Paris newshen (Realties, farflung columnist for Woman's Home Companion); of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Paris...