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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bruner called for an end to the "compartmentalizing" of education as a special department of a university. "Education is not a casual thing," he said, and emphasized that the intellectual community has to organize in order to "encode knowledge and skill in a transmittable form. Education is the tool kit of the next generations. It cannot be separated from culture...
...space devoted to M.I.T.'s position reflected more the preparation of its public relations staff than anything else. Every reporter was given the traditional press kit: there were nearly 30 pictures of M.I.T. buildings that might be damaged if the Inner Belt veered close to the Institute, in addition to long, detailed statements by Killian and an M.I.T. lawyer. The reporters had to do almost nothing--it was all there. and in many respects that was a shame, because M.I.T.'s case contained enough unanswered questions and apparent contradictions to keep a room full of reporters busy for hours...
...dangers of War with a quiet heroism that wins affection and awe rather than medals. One such chaplain is Lutheran Hugh Lecky, 34, a "helipadre" who last summer rode a chopper to Ba Gia, a remote outpost that was under Viet Cong attack. With a chaplain's kit on his left hip and a medical corpsman's bag on his right, Lecky ministered to a dying helicopter pilot, then turned to helping others-even though he was wounded by a mortar shell...
...sittings were punctuated by occasional visits from members of the Westmoreland family. At one time, ten-year-old Kit charged into the garden, spotted the bust in progress and gasped: "Gee, it's President Lincoln!" A second look straightened her out, but the awe was gone. "Oh," she sighed, "it's only Dad." The general roared with laughter. From Katherine, 17, came quite a different reaction. She returned to Honolulu for Christmas vacation proud of the fact that TIME had published a letter from a reader suggesting her father as Man of the Year. When...
...most luscious hostesses, as well as a 16-page leatherbound wine list in which choices range from $5.80 for a thimble of Hennessy brandy to $1.50 for "aerated water," otherwise known as Coca-Cola. During the Christmas season, the Mikado offers its customers an all-purpose bonenkai kit containing champagne, smoked oysters, a noisemaker and a tinseled...