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...Nation's Engine. In a land that lacks industrial resources, Hebrew Uni versity is the engine of the nation. "Our survival depends on the quality of our brains," says President Eliahu Elath, a noted Orientalist and former Israeli Ambassador to Washington and Lon don. "This university must help pre serve that quality or else we are lost." Students and faculty have a sense of direction that most U.S. colleges would find awesome. Professors publish or perish on the theory, bluntly stated by Humanities Dean Joshua Prawer, that "where there is a choice between a good scholar or a good...
...LON GARRISON Superintendent Yellowstone National Park Gardiner, Mont...
...cousin (Brandon de Wilde). Homer's honesty is tied up with his idea of the dignity of work. His cynical son values money and physical pleasure. The temptation to turn Hud into a pious little morality play must have been strong; fortunately it was resisted. In the end, Lon is won over to Homer's values but Hud gets the ranch and the money. The film's makers had the courage to conclude the movie on a note which leaves the question of "who won" in doubt...
...other actors in Hud provide good support for Newman. Melvyn Douglas' Homer is a bit too Isaiah-like; he oversimplifies his role, but without serious damage to the film's impact. Brandon de Wilde, as Lon, performs with the right mixture of naivete and poignant adolescent embarrasment. Patricia Neal, as Alma, the maid, is outstanding; she is convincing and matter-of-fact...
Last year, to foil the vigor seekers, the Fauna Preservation Society of Lon don launched Operation Oryx. Led by Major Ian R. Grimwood, chief game warden of Kenya Colony, an expedition of oryx savers spent two months in the deserts of Aden Protectorate in southern Arabia. They sighted four oryxes, lassoed three of them from a specially built car and brought them safely back alive...