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...Norville personally. Now he thinks Norville is a pretty terrific fellow himself. "Gifts are often given in a professor's name," he says, "but for a specific educational purpose. This is for me." Slosson intends to "plow this gift back into education"-the college education of his nine grandchildren. Best of all. says he, "Norville has set a precedent. His generosity might make it possible for other professors to receive such gifts...
America's grandchildren, says Khrushchev, will live under socialism. Professor William Appleman Williams of the University of Wisconsin can hardly wait-although socialism to him has a different meaning than to the Soviet boss. After a long and transparently loaded survey of U.S. history, his book asks a final question in academic gobbledygook: Is the nation really forced into a choice between "government by a syndicalist oligarchy relying on expansion" (roughly, the U.S. Progressive-New Deal movement) and "government by a class-conscious industrial gentry" (paternalistic capitalism)? Historian Williams' answer: There is a third possibility...
...they are afraid, and they are empty. They are afraid of taking a slightly lower living standard, afraid of the Arabs, afraid to leave their mother or their grandchildren...
...most amusing American phenomenon. She thinks it is hilarious to eat a hamburger in a regular apotek and loves to listen to the vernacular exchanges between the cook and the waiters, which completely baffle her. When she is there, she stocks up on those special favorites of her Danish grandchildren: multicolored Band-Aids, Silly Putty and Hershey chocolate kisses. She even saves Green Stamps...
...candidly with German fears over the impact of the forthcoming trial of Adolf Eichmann in Israel, with its reminders of the atrocities perpetrated by the Nazis. The "terrible crimes" of the Nazi era "cannot be blotted out, not by good will, nor by restitution and in demnification. Children and grandchildren will have to come to terms with that her itage as well as possible ... I am fully aware that after all that has happened my people cannot claim as a matter of course what is granted to other nations." But, hitting a point politically impor tant back home, Brandt urged...