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Nowhere is growth more dramatic than in New York, which did not even have a state university 20 years ago. Today the State University of New York (known familiarly as S.U.N.Y. and pronounced soonee) is the fastest growing, best-financed and most ambitious system of public higher education in the land. Enrollment has grown from 47,634 in 1960 to 139,149 now, and will reach 290,400 in seven years. In the past six years, New York has spent $1 billion on construction; nearly $2 billion will be spent by 1975. This month, S.U.N.Y. Chancellor Samuel Gould...
...cabinet" composed of three ministers of East African affairs, one from each government, and a Legislative Assembly that will include nine persons from each nation to enact laws governing services. Though only a modest first step, the East African Economic Community promises to be the smartest-and the fastest-growing-club in Africa...
...Fastest-rising star is Sydney, Australia, which was only put on the R & R list two months ago; its appeal is great surfing, a change of diet ("No rice on the plate," says one G.I.), and a place where everybody speaks English. Says Lieut. Tom Ryan, of the 1st Airborne Division and Big Rapids, Mich.: "It's great just to see white girls with round eyes again." Major Norman G. Lau-meyer of Long Prairie, Minn., a helicopter pilot of the 1st Cavalry Division and a farmer in civilian life, took a day's flying tour to inspect...
...felt I couldn't really study until I'd gotten it out of my system." Carolina and eight months of ad-After eight weeks of basic in South vanced infantry training in Louisiana, Sloan volunteered for paratroop training because the pay was good and it was the fastest way to Vietnam. "It was still Kennedy's war then," Sloane reminisces, "and I believed it when they told me that we were fighting to save the parliamentary democracy of the South from the dictatorship of the North...
...achilles tendon injury, may be the greatest middle distance runner in Harvard history. Last year as a freshman he broke the Yardling record in the 1000 with a time of 2:12.2, tied Huvelle's 1:10.5 University record in the 600, and ran the country's fastest freshman half-mile in the British Nationals...