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...story of Clarke, a small but remarkable girls' college that aims to educate its students for a fulfilled and rewarding life as wives and mothers in a modern world. Following a well-established pattern in such cases, Clarke found that a story in TIME was quite a landmark in its life. It got inquiries from prospective students and interested parents all over the country; since September 1964 its enrollment has increased 50%, from 800 to 1,200. Happily, contributions from supporters have also increased. Since 1964, Clarke has built three new buildings, including a $2.3 million science classroom-laboratory...
...embassies, loot shops and set fire to cars along the way. Before Mobutu decided that it was time for him to ask the rioters to go home, they had torn down a 35-ft.-high bronze statue of Belgium's King Albert I that had been a city landmark for years...
Fortress of Mystery. In what was hailed as a landmark event in giving back to Pennsylvania Avenue its role as "the axis of the nation," drawings were completed for a new $60 million FBI building, the first major federal building to go up on the avenue in a quarter of a century. The monumental structure, designed by Chicago's C. F. Murphy Assocs., will stand at the corner of the proposed new "Market Square," to occupy one side of Pennsylvania Avenue between Seventh and Ninth streets. The imposing facade will rise the maximum 160 ft. permitted above Pennsylvania Avenue...
...activity (EVA) gear, seals himself in the lifeboat and vents carbon dioxide and excess oxygen from his EVA suit to power the craft's attitude-control system. Face pressed against the porthole, he aligns his lifeboat with the horizon by firing the attitude-control jets. After sighting a landmark on earth with the reticle marked on the porthole, he aims and fires the retrorocket for 100 seconds, thus braking the lifeboat to a de-orbiting speed of 16,500 m.p.h. Then the retrorocket is jettisoned...
Vanishing Pygmies. The deal is a notable landmark in the gradual transformation of the tradition-bound house building industry. Last year, amid housing's worst slump since World War II, one out of five home builders went out of business. As small firms vanish, giant combines rich enough to build on a huge scale are taking over. Big corporations such as ITT are increasingly joining forces with builders-often by merger, sometimes through joint ventures. Last year, for example, Westinghouse Electric acquired Florida's Coral Ridge Properties and is now busy building a city for 60,000 residents...