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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...families are fine-until a hard-pressed father has to pay two or three college tuitions at once. Last week the jolt was eased by the University of Portland (Ore.), a Roman Catholic institution (enrollment: 1,550) which announced an unusual sliding-scale plan for big families. Terms: full $660 tuition for a family's first scholar, $440 for a second in attendance at the same time, $220 for a third-nothing for all thereafter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Cut-Rate Schmidts | 9/21/1959 | See Source »

...school exists only in model form in the office of Architecture Professor Marvin E. Goody, who heads an M.I.T. team working on the project under a grant from Monsanto Chemical Co. Goody cannot yet predict how much a full-scale model would cost. But it could be planned in one-third the time needed for designing conventional schools, and built twice as fast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Plastic School | 9/21/1959 | See Source »

Like almost every U.S. community, Lexington (pop. 23,500) is full of skilled specialists and passionate hobbyists. Last year Richard Woodward, 36, director of audio-visual education in Lexington's public schools, decided to find out just how wide and deep the treasure-trove lay. With clerical aid from the League of Women Voters, he mailed out help-wanted appeals to Lexington's 6,800 home addresses. For $186 in postage stamps, he got back a rich haul. Examples...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Experts on Call | 9/21/1959 | See Source »

...make her 400-meter victory even sweeter, Chris beat her great home-state rival, Berkeley's husky, 17-year-old Sylvia Ruuska (TIME, Mar. 9) by a full 7.5 sec., established herself as the most promising U.S. freestyler in years. Even so, Chris is still far from her peak. A leggy 5 ft. 10 in., 141 lbs., she is still filling out, should be faster yet in the Rome Olympics next August against the great Australians. Beyond that, her future seems unlimited to her coach, George Haines. "If Chris can keep interested in swimming, she could hit fantastic marks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: One-Girl Swim | 9/21/1959 | See Source »

...little town in Bavaria last week, one of the biggest casting jobs of the 1960 season was under way. Most of the hopeful male actors were already wearing their makeup-full beards. Every candidate knew what was expected of him because the play was a revival: the 34th run since 1634 of the enactment of Christ's Passion at Oberammergau...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPECTACLES: Revival | 9/21/1959 | See Source »

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