Word: meetings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Senior Editor Peter Bird Martin traveled to Majorca to meet the man himself. Martin missed a connection in London and arrived at Villa Fielding a day late. "I got there in the middle of a luncheon Nancy Fielding and her husband had arranged for the TIME team," says Martin. "Our correspondent, Gavin Scott, and Photographer Ben Martin were already there, awash in the famed Fielding charm. I had to keep reminding myself that however much we liked him, we also had to evaluate his book." For Martin, the most memorable moment of the visit was reached at dinner, when Fielding...
...three years ago there were scarcely a dozen. Most free universities are shadow schools that have arisen on existing campuses as a supplement to the conventional academic programs. Tuition is rarely more than $5 or $10 a semester; teachers contribute their services, and classes meet in borrowed houses, apartments or dormitory rooms. At best, the shadow schools are laboratories for testing academic reforms that regular institutions then adopt...
...free universities work. No tuition is charged, no teacher is paid, no grades or credits are given. Anyone who wants to teach a course merely lists it on a posted weekly schedule; if it draws students, it is a course. Classes take the form of discussion groups, usually meet once or twice a week in common rooms and student suites, and are led by teaching fellows or undergraduates themselves. Anyone can attend by signing up. Except for a few university secretaries, the New College's 150 to 200 students are enrolled full time at the "old college" as well...
...time they splashed down in the Pacific last week, Apollo 10 Astronauts Tom Stafford, Eugene Cernan and John Young had erased just about all doubt that the U.S. can meet its goal of landing men on the moon before the end of 1970. Even as the astronauts were being welcomed aboard the recovery carrier Princeton, American space officials were looking confidently ahead to the Apollo 11 lunar-landing mission now scheduled for July. Said Thomas Paine, head of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration in Houston: "Today, this moment, with the Apollo 10 crew safely on board, we know...
...demand has burst on a field that was totally unprepared for it. The number of beds in U.S. nursing homes has almost doubled in the past eight years to 750,000 but less than half are in homes that meet such Medicare standards as fireproofing and staff nursing services. The current additions of 90,000 beds a year can take care of only one-third of the rising need. The shortage has created profitable business possibilities for entrepreneurs. Doctors, lawyers, salesmen, even a talent agent and a junk dealer, have started chains of nursing homes, which live largely off federal...