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...most distinguished figures in U.S. education has been asked to head up General Learning. Time Inc. President James A. Linen announced last week that Francis Keppel (TIME cover, Oct. 15), former dean of the Harvard School of Education, and Assistant Secretary of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare since September 1965, has been invited to become chairman and chief educational officer of G.L. When Keppel resigned his Government post recently, President Johnson, in a cordial exchange of letters, saluted the educator as a man who has already made a memorable contribution to the effort to "bring...
...profit corporation has never had such a capital reserve. Established in 1957 on the receipts of an initial linen distribution program, it has grown to a current 22 agencies, but is still operating on a cash flow basis...
...actually do things, rather than just read about them, has been anathema around here for quite awhile. The usual argument against 'practical' courses asserts that Harvard is a liberal arts College and that therefore mere 'technical training' would sidetrack students from their main educational concerns, sullying the snowy white linen of pure scholarship...
...other side of the globe, Time Inc. President James A. Linen was concerned with the founding of a new university at Pattani, in southern Thailand. Linen was visiting Thailand as guest of Foreign Minister Thanat Khoman, and during his stay was honored by the King, who made him Dvitiyabhorn (Knight Commander) of the Most Noble Order of the Crown. Linen first met Thanat during TIME'S news tour of Asia last winter, when the Foreign Minister's vigor and his views of the U.S. role in Asia made a sharp impression on the U.S. business executives who were...
...Linen, who is president of the board of trustees of Hotchkiss School, vice chairman of the board of Athens College in Greece, and a member of the board of trustees of Williams, was eager to cooperate. He invited three top U.S. educators to advise Thai government leaders and educators on construction and programming of the new university. Dr. John E. Sawyer, president of Williams, Dr. Ashley S. Campbell, dean of engineering at Tufts, and Dr. Richard T. Goll, master of Harvard's Leverett House, are already in Thailand. "I hope that when the educators get back...