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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...
...Microscopic meteorites punctured Echo's skin, allowing the gas inside to seep out. Sunlight exerted a slight but persistent pressure. Gradually Echo lost its regular shape; flat places and wrinkles appeared on its shiny surface. "She's prune-faced already," says Richard Slater of G. T. Schjeldahl, Northfield, Minn., the company that made the balloon. When Echo turns deliberately about once in eight to ten minutes, flat places sometimes act as mirrors, making the sun's reflection momentarily brighter. Wrinkled places dim the reflection. The radio waves that are bounced off Echo show the same variations...
Lunar Probe. In Northfield, N.J., Eileen Bengal, 2½, climbed to the top of a 50-ft. television tower next to her home, when rescued beamed: "I was trying to go to the moon...
...many to bowl that membership in the Woman's International Bowling Congress last year passed the 1,000,000 mark, is expected to increase another 250,000 this year. In many an alley the beer cooler has given way to the bottle warmer. When Cleveland's suburban Northfield Lanes opened last year, it offered housewives three weeks of free bowling, also tossed in lessons, coffee and baby sitting on the house. By following this pattern (often adding closed-circuit TV for mothers to watch their children in the nursery from the lanes), alleys have made it possible...
...following Juniors were elected to membership in the Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society Thursday: David M. Balabanian, of Kirkland House and Cashmere, Wash., a concentrator in Government; Michael W. B. Freeman, of Eliot House and Detroit, Mich., Romance Languages and Literatures; and Smith Freeman Jr., of Eliot House and Northfield, III., Chemistry and Physics...