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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SUNRISE SEMESTER (CBS, 9:30-10 a.m.). New York's excellent adult education show goes network. Courses offered this year by members of the N.Y.U. faculty will be Introduction to Ethics, Outlines of the History of Art, the Legacy of Greece and Rome. Daily programs will be broadcast on the network at 1-1:30 p.m. weekdays. Premi...
...Allen D. Marshall, a former executive of General Electric and General Dynamics. "They should be more willing to lend it on the increasing value of his education." Under USAF's plan, a student may borrow up to $4,000 from any bank in the organization's expanding network. While regular bank loans can cost up to 8% in true interest, nonprofit, tax-exempt USAF can secure loans repayable at as little as 5% and in no case more than 6% simple interest. And the student does not have to begin repaying the loan until five months after graduation...
Claster's mail-order method is an odd way to syndicate a show, but wherever it is seen it achieves a local flavor impossible on a network. In each Romper Room city, the teacher has half a dozen local five-year-olds on the air with her every day, replacing three each week. They learn the alphabet, balance baskets on their heads, shove sand around with toy bulldozers, flack for their own drawings, and learn key facts of nature, such as, say, a whale can get a sunburn and peel. It is a school, not vaudeville, to be sure...
Twenty-four miles east of Sacramento, Architect Victor Gruen has master-planned a 9,800-acre project called El Dorado Hills, which in 15 or 20 years will be a network of twelve villages with a combined population of 75,000 in apartments, as well as houses ranging in price from $20,000 to $100,000. Each village will be centered around a single recreational activity?boating, golf, riding, swimming...
...Pont, founder of the Du Pont chemical empire, and grew big by catering to Wilmington's richest carriage trade. Now headed by Francis' son, Edmond du Pont, 57, the firm long ago broadened its sights beyond Wilmington, can use Allyn's brokerage network to expand even further its fast growing business. The move will strengthen du Font's position as the nation's second biggest broker but, with $300 million in assets, du Pont will still be only one-third as big as Merrill Lynch...