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...revolution, terror inevitably breeds reaction, and last week the first signs of it were evident in China. As the rabid Red Guards continued to root out real or imagined foes of Mao Tse-tung everywhere, reports from the northwestern city of Sian told of a three-day clash between revolutionary students and provincial party leaders who refused to go along with their idiotic demands. To humiliate the bureaucrats, the students finally staged a mass hunger strike in front of party headquarters. In Kwangtung province, scores of Red Guards were beaten by villagers after the youths set fire to a temple...
Skinny Years. The pursuit of perfection began at the age of five when Heston played his first role in the one-room schoolhouse he attended in northern Michigan. At Northwestern University, he worked with Classmates Patricia Neal and Ralph Meeker, met another hopeful actress, Lydia Clarke, who has been his wife for 22 years. After some skinny years in Manhattan, he got a supporting role in Katharine Cornell's Antony and Cleopatra ("Miss Cornell is a tall woman and likes to have tall actors around"). From there, it was roles in TV and a lead in his first film...
...rest of them can do, except hop on one foot." Mrs. Cottingham came to class at the urging of her husband, Wayne, 70, who retired as an Associated Press editor in Manhattan to study the stock market under the university's economists. Ernest Jones, 66, a bearded Northwestern lumberjack who frittered away a $6,000 bankroll before he heard about the Kentucky program, is studying German and recreational leadership. He figures that younger students learn faster, but argues that "we can be more persistent" and says yearningly: "I'd sure like to go to Oxford...
...Axis (Houghton Mifflin) by Charles Newman, 28, an English professor at Northwestern, finds its anti-hero in suburbia-Newman passed his adolescence in a wealthy Chicago suburb. Little Ed, the son of Big Ed, grows up in the world of picture windows and miniature tractors to become successively a tackle on the Country Day School football team, a lifeguard at the country club, an M.D. with a prosperous practice, the father of Little Little Ed-and a man who sometimes wonders sadly if he will really find salvation through his hobby: hand-hewing baseball bats. Author Newman's sentences...
...Chicago, schools that produce one-third of the nation's Ph.D.s, recently agreed in principle on the awarding of a similar "all-but-dissertation" degree, jokingly called the A.B.D. and more formally termed the Certificate of Candidacy, pending agreement on a more apt name. The aim, says Northwestern Graduate Dean Robert Baker, is to "impress the educational world with the validity of this stage of training." The Graduate Council at the University of California's Berkeley campus is studying a faculty recommendation to offer a similar degree to be called a Doctor of Arts...