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...largest block of money -- about $1.2 million -- will be used to extend the library wing of Paine Hall, and add a floor to the building...
...From this initial look into the place of the teaching fellows in the University we came to two rather general conclusions, upon which, in the largest sense, our organization has been formed. First, few or none of us wished in any way to deny the value of the teaching fellow program at Harvard, either for Harvard College or for oureselves.... Even the large responsibilities which Harvard often placed upon the teaching fellows was felt to be a decidedly valuable part of the entire Harvard program, for it gave teaching fellows the freedom to develop more fully their own views...
Well aware that the Southwest's 5,000,000 Mexican-Americans constitute the second largest disadvantaged minority in America (TIME, April 28), and working from a concern rooted deep in his Texas past, Lyndon Johnson last week appointed Armando Rodriguez, 46, as coordinator of the new Mexican-American Affairs Unit of the U.S. Office of Education. Born in Durango, Mexico, and a former California educator, Rodriguez will supervise programs aimed at easing the lot of both braceros (Mexican farm workers) and pochos (a self-description used by native-born Mexican-Americans that the more assimilated consider pejorative), as well...
...Opus Dei. Development Planning Minister Laureano López Rodó, Minister of Commerce Faustino Garcia-Monco, Minister of Industry Gregorio López Bravo, Central Bank Governor Mariano Navarro Rubio and Ambassador to the Common Market Alberto Ullástres are all members. Spain's sixth largest private bank (Banco Popular Espaňol) is owned almost solely by Opus Dei members, and they reportedly control 13 other banks and insurance companies, 16 real estate and construction firms and an industrial empire that includes five chemical plants...
Died. Louis Dreyfus, 89, aggressive German-born head of one of the world's largest music-publishing empires, Chappell & Co., who in the 1890s followed his older brother Max to the U.S., where they made a fortune publishing the works of Jerome Kern and George Gershwin, then shifted to London in 1929 to take over Britain's venerable Chappell & Co., establishing branches throughout the world and tying up the publishing rights for just about every major Broadway composer from Romberg to Loewe; of a heart attack; in London...