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Learning & Burning. Kentucky's unique Berea College is designed specifically to serve poor students from the Southern Appalachians (90% of enrollment). Searching for talent amidst poverty, Berea charges no tuition (students earn their keep), is so successful of its kind that educators flock to it from underdeveloped countries in hopes of picking up ideas. Another bootstrap operation is Oklahoma City University, which is remodeling itself completely after M.I.T. (TIME, June 6). At Texas' Austin College, a hefty new Ford grant is aimed at building the school into a Southwestern Amherst or Swarthmore...
...measured the effect of early isolation on chicken behavior. They hatched 30 chicks in a dark incubator. Ten chicks were then moved to individual cubicles, getting no chance to see one another. Ten more were cooped in pairs, and the remaining ten were kept together as a small, sociable flock...
After four weeks, the chickens were tested for sociability by putting them one by one in an apparatus that kept automatic track of how much time they spent near a "stimulus" chicken, separated from them by a partition of wire mesh. The chickens raised in a flock or in pairs showed intense togetherness, spending nearly all their time close to the other chickens. But the chickens raised in isolation fled to the far end of the cage...
Yale built its championship team under the standard Ivy League requirements, which would drive a Big Ten coach to despair: no athletic scholarships, plus entrance standards that are among the highest in the nation. Even so, rabid Yale alumni across the country were able to sell a flock of bright and burly boys on the idea of going to New Haven. The Chicago area alone-long a source of raw material for football foundries-supplied six starters, including Quarterback Singleton (6 ft., 200 Ibs.), Captain Pyle (6 ft. 3 in., 233 lbs.), and Center Hardy Will...
...boost from both the Federal Aviation Agency and the Civil Aeronautics Board last week. Both agreed that the Electra crash in Boston was definitely caused by starlings that choked the plane's engines. As if to underscore their findings, an Eastern Airlines DC-8 jet struck a flock of birds last week as it taxied for a take-off from Boston's Logan International Airport, slammed to a stop on the runway only in the nick of time. Alarmed, Logan authorities established roving bands of shotgun-armed guards who have orders to shoot at birds on sight...