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...kitchen-sized Institut de Papyrologie at Paris' ancient Sorbonne University is one of the oddities of modern science. In an era of high-budget research, the institute operates with a few dollars' worth of unimpressive equipment, but its growing contribution to man's knowledge of his ancient culture is yet to be assessed...
...irrelevancy in the lives of many people?the great majority." Gloomy Christian theologians are fond of speaking of a post-Christian age?the Christian Church estranged from modern society. "We need a theology of the 20th, or even the 21st century," says Dominican Dominique Dubarle, professor at the Institut Catholique de Paris...
REIMAR LUST, of the MacPlanck Institut , Germany, will discuss "The Solar Atmosphere and the Interplanetary Medium in Jefferson Laboratory...
...Signal Corps captain assigned to collecting Nazi documents received a manuscript alleged to be a copy of this unpublished work. Transferred with a mountain of other captured documents to Washington archives under the number EAP 105/40, the manuscript was all but forgotten. Scholarly sleuths from Munich's Institut für Zeitgeschichte (Institute for Contemporary History-TIME, Dec. 7, 1959) finally tracked it down, discovered that the University of Michigan's Professor Gerhard L. Weinberg had beaten them...
...Institut de Puériculture, a hospital for premature infants, she accepted a bouquet of sweet peas, admired the babies, and observed that her daughter Caroline detested flashbulbs. The president of the Paris Municipal Council presented her with a tiny wristwatch, was rewarded with a smile. Then there was a quick trip to flower-decked Malmaison, the Empress Josephine's country retreat, and a gourmet lunch (lobster thermidor, mousse aux fraises des bois, and three wines) at La Celle St. Cloud, the long-ago hideaway of Mme. de Pompadour. And capping it all was the gala evening at the Palace...