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...with the formation of Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland now boasts one of the nation's largest private universities-a science-minded school that ranks ahead of Johns Hopkins and the University of Chicago in both faculty size (1,200) and graduate enrollment (4,547), and ahead of both Dartmouth and Duke in terms of endowment ($138 million...
...Athens. But most Clevelanders welcome the new arrangement. The eighth largest U.S. city, Cleveland has long qualified as one of the nation's leading cultural centers, thanks largely to its prestigious museum and symphony orchestra. Both are housed in "University Circle," a 488-acre civic complex that Cleveland citizens proudly refer to as "the modern Athens." Until the formation of Case Western Reserve, however, the city's higher education lagged behind its cultural achievements. "It was an idea whose time had come," says one of the new school's trustees. "It gives Cleveland a university...
...below the Nevada desert last week, the AEC tested a one-megaton hydrogen device, the largest ever exploded in the U.S. Despite earlier protests from scientists, labor leaders and Howard Hughes, who had feared earthquakes, major property damage and vented radiation, the blast produced only a harmless ground shock and a rock-filled underground cavity similar to that created by the AEC's Project Gas-buggy (TIME...
...only the leading press lord of his state but also its most powerful citizen. In addition to putting out the state's biggest papers, the morning Daily Oklahoman (circ. 190,000) and the afternoon Oklahoma City Times (118,000), his Oklahoma Publishing Co. owns the state's largest TV and radio stations, its largest trucking express service, the Farmer-Stockman (450,000), a monthly reaching farmers throughout the Southwest...
Voters wishing to write-in will have an easier time in towns, many of which still use paper ballots. But polling in the state's cities, where the largest turnout is expected, is mechanized...