Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Winston has bought the 601-carat Lesotho diamond, the seventh-largest gem-quality diamond known, which was found last May on a tiny claim owned by Petrus Ramoboa, 38, in the South African kingdom of Lesotho. Ramoboa carried his stone 110 miles to the capital of Maseru, with government help sold it for $302,400 to a South African merchant. Winston, the third owner, called the Lesotho diamond "practically perfect," said he will cut it into about 20 stones selling for more than $1,000,000. As for Petrus Ramoboa, he has already gone out and bought himself a suit...
Desperate Shortage. Today the college's spacious 127-acre Western campus (20 minutes from San Francisco by freeway) also contains glossy ultramodern buildings, and its 770 students are broadly drawn from 45 states and 24 countries; nearly a fourth of the girls get financial help to meet the $3,000 annual charges. No longer interested in a protective, genteel education, Mills girls plunge eagerly into such unsheltered activities as tutoring Negro youngsters in Oakland and studying city government by taking part-time municipal jobs. Blessed with a legion of loyal and generous alumnae, Mills has nearly doubled faculty salaries...
...Carnegie Corporation for five years, is determined to lead Mills in new directions. He contends that since research-dominated universities no longer provide a meaningful liberal arts education, this task is now up to the small colleges. The liberal arts, he says, need to be redefined to help meet the "desperate shortage of people who are truly generalists." In his inaugural address, he called for faculty conferences to chart Mills's future, but indicated he will oppose the current trend among women's colleges of associating with a men's school. "I want Mills to take...
...theatrical language of the National Theater is the familiar signing of the deaf, abetted by skilled pantomime. To help audiences follow the action, two members of the company with normal hearing speak the lines-sometimes from the sidelines, sometimes onstage-synchronizing their words with the actors' gestures...
...Eugene O'Neill Memorial Theater Foundation, Psychologist Edna Levine and Administrator Mary Switzer of the Rehabilitation Services Administration, backed by a $331,000 grant from the Federal Government. Although only one of the 14 actors has had any conventional theatrical experience, the company has had directorial help from such top Broadway professionals as Arthur Penn and Joe Layton. Justifiably proud of their mimetic skills, the actors are living proof, on stage at least, that a word in the hand may sometimes be worth two in the mouth. Says Managing Director Hays: "They paint pictures...