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Practicality v. Principle. Some of the holdouts are getting along well enough, mainly by hunting harder for private dollars. Rockford has built an entirely new $24 million campus since 1960, pushed the pay of full professors from a top of $7,000 to an average $11,000. It draws 86% of its annual $2,000,000 operating budget from private gifts -highest rate in the nation. While President Howard prefers to credit this success to donors' excitement over academic innovations at his school, his anti-aid stance has created wide publicity that appeals to some wealthy donors. Shunning federal...
...circular Hirshhorn Museum planned for Washington, D.C., which rivals Hadrian's Tomb in scale. One museum in the process of being formed has decided on a different style. It is Fort Worth's Kimbell Art Museum, due to open in 1971, and backed by an estimated $75 million left by the late Texas millionaire Kay Kimbell (groceries, oil, insurance). The architect: Philadelphia's Louis I. Kahn, who has now proudly presented his model...
ECOLOGY Defliating Viet Nam U.S. forces are fighting not only Communist troops in Viet Nam but also the vegetation that conceals and feeds them. In thousands of sorties be tween January and September of 1967, U.S. planes sprayed 50 million Ibs. of herbicides* on 1,000,000 acres of foliage and crops in South Viet Nam. The figures this year will be even higher. To what extent is this likely to damage the country's ecology...
Died. Elliott B. Macrae, 67, president since 1944 of E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., publishers; of cancer; in New Canaan, Conn. Widely traveled and equally cosmopolitan in taste, Macrae over the years printed something for practically everyone; he sprang Mickey Spillane on the world (seven biggest sellers: 34.6 million copies), published Mountain Climber Maurice Herzog's classic Annapurna, Lawrence Durrell's The Alexandria Quartet, and Evgeny Evtushenko's Selected Poems. His great friend was A. A. Milne, whose whimsical Winnie-the-Pooh sold more than 1,000,000 copies and appeared in a dozen languages-including...
...hands of the same family. The only afternoon daily published in Newark, it is New Jersey's largest newspaper, with a statewide daily circulation of 278,000 and 423,000 on Sundays. Advertising revenue has risen 38% over the past seven years to more than $25 million in 1967. With an editorial staff of 254 in Newark and six regional bureaus in the state, the News started delivering some 20,000 copies of a New York edition last month...