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...heavy U.S. spending in Spain, and in part, by the damage done to crops by this year's severe spring freezes. Last July Spanish workers took their case to Dictator Franco himself, asked for a basic minimum wage of 75 pesetas a day (approximately $1.77). Said Franco, a medievalist in economics as in politics: "Nothing can be gained if we artificially raise salaries. That rise would be followed by a corresponding rise in prices, and you would be much poorer than you are today." Some 700 delegates (representing an estimated 8,000,000 Spanish workers) went back muttering...
...disciple of Adams rather than Gibbon, Medievalist Allan Temko, 31, has put his love and knowledge of the Cathedral of Notre-Dame into an astute and eloquent book that merits shelfroom with Adams' famed Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres. But while Adams sought out only the major thread of medieval unity, Author Temko weaves a tapestry of multiplicity-within-unity. Along with the rising cathedral walls, he traces the rise of the Capetian monarchs to rule Paris, the rise of Paris to rule France, the rise of French Gothic to rule an age. "The Church clothes her stones...
Starck, a philologist and medievalist, has been on the Harvard faculty since 1920. He is editor of the publications of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and Chairman of the Committee of the American Council of Learned Societies on UNESCO Affairs...
...hoped to find a sedate, older woman for the job. What they finally got was a brash and breezy young man. Lynn White Jr. was a San Francisco minister's son who had studied at Union Theological Seminary and had taken his Ph.D. under Harvard's famed Medievalist Charles Homer Haskins. He was an expert on wine and cooking ("anything with garlic in it"), on 13th Century clocks and chivalry ("the culture of the horsy crowd"). And somewhere along the line, he had also become an unabashed expert on women's colleges...
...broad-beamed Lynn White Jr. is a cherubic-looking medievalist who is something of an expert on the 13th Century origins of the mechanical clock. Ever since 1943, when he became president of lively little (enrollment: 800) Mills College (for women) in Oakland, Calif., he has also been something of a maverick in the world of higher education. So far as women are concerned, says he, higher education is a flop. Last week, in a new book called Educating Our Daughters (Harper; $2.50), he told...