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...contest for young minds in backward countries, the University of Hawaii's East-West Center should have been an early winner. Billed as a magnet for Asian students, it was first proposed by U.S. Senator Lyndon Johnson in 1959-nearly a year before Nikita Khrushchev hatched Moscow's Friendship University (TIME, Jan. 6). Hawaii had the advantage of the island's proud multiracial harmony; Friendship University is a segregated school for Afro-Asians. Yet somehow the Russians scored all the propaganda coups. Hawaii's East-West Center foundered in big talk and bad planning...
Keep Out. Le Corbusier's whitewashed studio at 35 Rue de Sévres, which he has occupied for almost 40 years, had become a magnet for apprentice architects from Japan, England, the U.S., South America. It still is, for no week passes without its qouta of admiring visitors. A long, dusty corridor leads them up a winding staircase to an odd wooden door. They pause in a tiny waiting room, and finally a small gate with a ferocious KEEP OUT sign opens. Past the gate is the cramped office of the master- a lonely, childless widower whose office...
...balance-of-payments and gold-outflow problem, the U.S. last week got some help from abroad. Responding to heavy pressure from the Eisenhower Administration, West Germany lowered its discount rate from 5% to 4%, and its bank rates for loans from 6% to 5%, thus weakening a magnet that has been drawing gold from the U.S. Kennedy seems sure to insist strongly, as did Ike, that West Germany and other U.S. allies help more in defending the free world against Communism, thus relieving the U.S. of some of its heavy foreign spending...
About the closest anyone ever comes to denning adult education is to call it a "continuing process." At Manhattan's progressive New School for Social Research, long (41 years) a magnet for adults with time on their hands, the process continued last week in wondrous fash ion. Sample courses (total: 400) from the New School's catena!! fall bulletin...
...Golden-haired Ellen Lacy, wife of one of Randal's younger rivals, may be no match for Helen, but in the woman-starved region around the Broken S, her barren beauty is "the lodestar for this small galaxy called the Forkhandle country ... ox-eyed and unaware of the magnet her aureate flesh concealed." When the Paris of the piece starts tossing his good looks around, a range war results, friend kills vengeful friend, and fate contrives grim endings as it did before the walls of Troy...