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...undergraduates are the "focal point round which the college revolves," as the late Neville Ward-Perkins said. "The average don spends a good deal of his time dealing with them in a future, present or past tense, choosing them, tutoring them, and finally never quite losing a sense of responsibility for their welfare...
Aiming the Eye. One of the first esthetic considerations in freeway design is the question of what can be seen. Concentration intensifies with speed, and peripheral vision diminishes. The highway designer must offer the driver variety near the focal point of his attention without distracting him from the road; at throughway speed, the driver cannot afford to turn his head for more than a few seconds. The road must...
...BARBADOS. This island, where many British sun worshipers have built winter houses, is the latest focal point of the international set. And the latest focal point of Barbados is Sandy Lane, a hotel built two years ago by English-born Manhattan Socialite Ronald Tree, whose wife, Marietta, is U.S. Representative to the U.N. Human Rights Commission. There is nothing sandy about Sandy Lane; Millionaire Tree, who has built a handsome Palladian house in Barbados, spared no expense in building and furnishing his hotel. Jet-setters have been flocking there; its 100 beds are currently booked through mid-March...
...should like to thank you for opening the columns of TIME for an extremely well-written presentation of the Danish press and for choosing the Berlingske Tidende as a focal point. We have evidence from many parts of Europe showing that the article [Jan. 4] has been widely read. It has given us confidence to tackle the next 214 years, even if it will necessarily mean a change of editors...
...foretaste of doom is Montmartre's Moulin Rouge, soon to make way for a supermarket unless sentimental Parisians can block its sale. Built in 1889 as a dance hall for Paris' deliciously depraved demimonde, it subsequently became a cabaret, vaudeville house, cinema, and a focal point for "generations" of wide-eyed tourists. Its raffish denizens were immortalized by Henri Toulouse-Lautrec, the unhappy dwarf who turned poster drawing into a fine...