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Last month, the President and Fellows sent a letter to all professors, current and past members of the Board of Overseers, and hundreds of Alumni Directors, Class Secretaries, and the like, inviting "comments and suggestions" on the selection of new Fellows from "anyone who has the interest of the University at heart...
Funds would have to come from the property-owners. Payne admitted, in return for which they would receive "in creased rents from the leasing of the new retail space" on the second level. He said he hoped for a "gesture of interest" from the city-possibly financing construction over public rights-of-way, or merely furnishing "legal sympathy" in such matters as zoning...
...dissident Buddhists who wanted to overthrow Diem in 1963, made the U.S. responsible for a series of weak successor regimes and drew the U.S. further and further into this damned morass. The inglorious arguments that you despise, i.e. that this war is too costly and not in America's interest, would have had us out of Vietnam...
...television viewing, tongs that carry melons without bruising them, and a keyless electronic lock that opens when hidden pressure points are pushed. There is even an ingenious array of glass tubes that waters indoor plants while a householder is away: Such an exhibit would have stirred little interest among major companies a few years ago, but this display attracted representatives of some of the nation's largest firms; they could not afford to stay away...
EVERY year about 30,000 new titles are printed in the U.S. Putting aside paperbacks (about 7,500), textbooks (more than 2,000) as well as thousands of specialty volumes of limited interest, that leaves some 5,000 hard-cover books which each year come to TIME'S Book Section for examination and possible review. Choosing between them week by week as they arrive is an often agonizing, always time-consuming process, even though many swiftly prove 1) badly written, 2) wretchedly edited, and 3) largely unnecessary. In this issue, instead of choosing, we attempt to give the reader...