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Harvard prides itself on setting a standard for the country's other educational institutions, but it seems that a small Midwestern college has come up with an idea that the University might well consider. Next fall, St. Olaf College of Northfield, Minn., will institute a four-year guaranteed cost plan insuring students that their tuition fee will not be increased at any time during their college careers. All raises in fees and tuition will be effective only with the incoming freshman class...
WESTERN RAIL FIGHT for control of Western Pacific (TIME, Feb. 17) will involve the Denver & Rio Grande Western, key link between the Western Pacific and Midwestern cities. Union Pacific and the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy are buying Rio Grande stock in defensive moves to prevent Santa Fe from setting up a direct Chicago-to-San Francisco route should it win control of Western Pacific...
This is a very American novel written by a Frenchman about Belgium. The U.S. note is insistently struck when Robert Drouin, a Paris TV producer, drives through an all-night snowstorm across a wide Flanders plain as featureless and flat as any Midwestern prairie. He asks directions at a roadside inn where huge transcontinental trucks cluster and the room rocks with the blare of a jukebox and the colored lights and clatter of pinball machines. Even the ancient, canal-veined city of Bruges, whose chimes and carillons sound like "pianos in the sky," has a night face of glaring neon...
...rest of the issue is devoted to a short story by Mary Hill Gilbert about an adolescent girl who, though inordinately fat, finds love, happiness, and security in a small Midwestern town, and a half dozen terribly sensitive poems about the transience of beauty, the best of which is the cover...
...confined to bigots. The bishops' ban raised anew the legitimate questions of Protestants (and some Catholics) who had heard Catholic Candidate Jack Kennedy pledge repeatedly that his church had no power to influence a Catholic's political decisions. As news of the first edict spread, Midwestern newspapers were peppered with questioning protests. In Denver widely respected Methodist Bishop Glenn R. Phillips announced that "on Nov. 8 I shall not mark my ballot for a Roman Catholic candidate for the presidency," added later that the Puerto Rican bishops' letter had doubly confirmed his stand...