Word: fortes
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Despite the financial obstacles facing most private universities (TIME cover, June 23), academe still has fearless optimists who figure they know how to beat the odds. No one is more con fident of ultimate success than Warren J. Winstead, president of the brand-new Nova University near Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Brashly aimed at becoming a Southern counterpart to Caltech and M.I.T., Nova U. is being guided by a blue-ribbon panel of top educators, will open its first classes this fall with just 21 graduate students, all on full fellowships-and also with 25 Ph.D. professors...
Winstead picked his professors partly on the basis of the federal research funds they could bring to Nova. Penn State's Raymond Pepinsky, an expert in crystal physics, arrived in Fort Lauderdale with $500,000 worth of research equipment. After more than a decade at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, William S. Richardson joined Nova, which expects to become one of the first "sea colleges" recently authorized by Congress to handle federal research in oceanography (a concept fathered, not coincidentally, by Nova Adviser Spilhaus). To complete his campus, Winstead persuaded the Government to give Nova 91 acres...
...Sorrentino has 25 scars on his hands to prove that he was one of the best street fighters that Brooklyn's tough Fort Hamilton neighborhood ever had. By the time he was 20, he had flunked out of high school four times, had been booted out of the Marines and had lost 30 jobs. That was ten years ago. This month Joe Sorrentino, now 30, was valedictorian of Harvard Law School. "It has been a long journey to this honor," he told the commencement audience, in what was almost certainly the year's most moving graduation address...
...perched on the rear seat of a 1912 International Autowagon and led a parade of school bands, color guards, flag-waving children and the 70-man Marine Recruit Depot Band. Rousing as it all was, the real kick for Walt was his return visit to Colorado State University at Fort Collins, where the toughest general in the Corps posed beamishly in a football helmet, much like the one he'd worn as an all-conference guard and team captain...
...railroads that earned money on that kind of traffic. Or accomplishing unlikely mergers: in a recent move that caught Wall Street by surprise, Heineman announced that for cash and stock exchanges totaling $367 million, the C. & N.W. was acquiring Essex Wire Corp. (annual sales: $375 million), a Fort Wayne, Ind. firm that makes wire, cable, switches and auto parts in 54 U.S. and Canadian plants. The railroad seems to be getting a bargain. Essex itself last week announced that it was acquiring Stevens Manufacturing Co. and Boyne Products, Inc., both of them small manufacturers of control devices...