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...deschoolers' ideas have been tried out for two years in Evanston, Ill., by two doctoral dropouts from Northwestern, Bob Lewis and Denis Detzel, who also studied with Ivan Illich. In two years their Learning Exchange has put 6,000 students in touch with informal teachers of such subjects as German classics, Camus, African music, Hinduism and auto mechanics. Fourteen more exchanges modeled after Evanston's have since sprung up in the U.S., as well as two abroad...
Situated on a pleasant, 140-acre site in Spring Valley, a northwestern suburb of New York City, the club offers golf, tennis, indoor and outdoor swimming, dining, dancing and other diversions. It also has 60 bedrooms, all with twin beds. Since married people are barred from membership, couples obviously cannot register as Mr. and Mrs.; beyond that, the management takes a laissez-faire attitude...
Thompson, a Chicago native, became fascinated with criminal law while studying at Northwestern University. He taught the subject there for five years and co-authored two books. At the request of Senator Charles Percy, President Nixon appointed Thompson to the U.S. Attorney post...
...into the shenanigans of local Democratic administrations. They also got plenty of help from the Justice Department, which raised their budget, enabling the attorney's office to increase the staff of lawyers from 23 to 73. Many of the scrappy young lawyers whom Thompson recruited were his former Northwestern students, and they were hired on the basis of merit, not because of their political affiliations...
Research is now going forward to find the answers to these questions. Dr. William Hardy, an S.K.I, veterinarian, is conducting research in animal leukemias that could lead to better understanding of the disease in man. Dr. Philip Paterson and his colleagues at Northwestern University Medical School are trying to identify...