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...country's best high schools. Just 24 last week, and married to a medical student at Northwestern University, she has the face and figure of a campus beauty queen, which she was a few years ago at Minnesota's Carleton College. (She also graduated magna cum laude with a Phi Beta Kappa key.) But her 100 students in four daily classes have no time for ogling her. Teacher De Long is a perfectionist; she conscientiously demands-and scrupulously grades-one theme per student each week. Result: she works 14 hours a day six days a week and most...
...nine plants unannounced, dresses down plant management when things are not ship shape, sometimes takes a soldering iron and a screwdriver to go to work on a problem himself. The largest single Magnavox stockholder (167,000 of 2,350,000 shares), he relaxes aboard the 62-ft. company yacht, Magna Mar, fishes for marlin off Florida. A music lover, he has little confidence in engineering graphs and charts that prove his product is perfect. When he wants to judge, he cocks his ear, decides how it sounds...
Born in Elkhart, Indiana, Bender received his B.A. magna cum laude in 1927, and his M.A. in 1930. In addition to his work in University Hall, he has been a Lecturer in History since the early...
...centuries Leptis Magna was a lost, buried city. Founded by far-ranging Phoenician traders, it was a great port in Carthaginian times. Later it was allied to Rome, but the city fathers made the mistake of siding with Pompey against Julius Caesar. For this the city was fined 300,000 measures of oil annually. Later still it became the home town of a Roman emperor, Septimius Severus, who made it one of the grandest and wealthiest cities of the empire. Nubian slaves, lions for the Roman arenas, ivory and African gold flowed through Leptis Magna into the civilized world, until...
...also one of the least visited. The sere, solemn world of Leptis Magna lies 76 desert miles east of Tripoli on Libya's Barbary Coast, reachable only by primitive bus or costly taxi. There are no guards in sight, and visitors often go home with a bit of the Classical Age in their pockets-usually a marble shard. It is possible for a traveler to ramble through this forest of fluted stone and broken stone bodies for hours without meeting anything at all of the present except himself, the burning...