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...unpretentious ceremony at 200-year-old Nassau Hall, Dr. Harold W. Dodds, 68, passed on the presidency of Princeton University to Dr. Robert F. Goheen, former assistant classics professor, who at 37 is the youngest chief executive to take office at the university since 1759. The new president's biggest problem, according to Dr. Dodds: renovating Princeton's antiquated physical plant. The retiring prexy's next assignment: determining, for the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, what makes a good college president...
...good reason. Ike may like Len; Len may like Len; but Len isn't really sure whether anyone else does. This basic insecurity is, of course, highly unbecoming for a man of Mr. Hall's stature. After all, he is a former sheriff of Nassau County...
...basic lack of security; and for the Republicans, because they are just beginning to recover from a similar fiasco in Cambridge. Fortunately, there is a way out. Mr. Eisenhower, who intimated that he had not found a federal post suitable for Hall, might consider having the present sheriff of Nassau County promoted, so that Len could get his old job back. That way everybody would be happy, or almost everybody...
...vote against a policy statement calling for removal of union officers who plead the Fifth Amendment, particularly at Government rackets investigations (TIME, Feb. 11). After the vote Beck stamped out, and the word was that he was headed home for Seattle. Five days later newsmen flushed him out in Nassau in the Bahamas, en route to Europe on "official business...
...Navigating with just the kind of seamanlike skill his grey-hulled, centerboard yawl Finisterre deserved, Skipper Carleton Mitchell logged a corrected time of 28 hr. 14 min. 39 sec. to win the 184-mile sail from Miami to Nassau, B.W.I. Victor in 25 of the 40 races he has entered, Skipper Mitchell decided to ease off the wind, announced that after one more effort he will refrain from racing for a while...