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...first big college football weekend of the year, top-ranked teams across the nation flashed expected power as they warmed up for the battles to come. Syracuse opened the defense of its national championship by brushing aside Boston University, 35-7. A favorite to win the Big Ten title, Northwestern ground down once mighty Oklahoma, 19-3. Among the always-interesting service teams, Army defeated Boston College, 20-7, Navy battered Villanova, 41-7, and the Air Force beat Colorado State University...
Only five minutes away from the traditional downtown "core" shopping area of Portland, Lloyd Center is a consumer's cornucopia. Its more than 100 retail stores are carefully clustered in competing groups (e.g., hardware, dresses) so that bargain hunters can save shoe leather. The sculpture and mobiles of Northwestern artists dot the landscape, and no flashy advertising or jutting store signs are permitted. Lloyd's has an ice-skating rink with live music, professional offices, seven restaurants, is dominated by the new 300-room Sheraton-Portland Hotel...
...Nabrit has only himself to credit. One of seven children of an Atlanta preacher, he earned his law degree at Northwestern, then joined the Howard law faculty as a fledgling constitutional lawyer in 1936 and jumped into the battle for civil rights. Between teaching and setting up the first formal civil rights course in any U.S. law school, Nabrit argued discrimination cases in eleven states and the District of Columbia. He won major victories in getting the universities of Maryland, Oklahoma and Texas to admit Negro students, did much to abolish white primary elections in Texas. In 1954, joining Howard...
Espresso-Shop Idealism. A kind of D.P. poet, wearing moccasins and no tie, Herridge went to Northwestern, once held a poetry fellowship at the University of California. Leaving academe astride the flaring rationalization that "one should live at the center of experience of his time," he hit the road. He loafed, worked on road gangs, on farms, on beaches as a lifeguard. He published stories in Scribner's Magazine and the American Mercury. Following his Steinbeck period came his Hemingway period. Herridge enlisted in the Army Air Corps, flew missions over southern Europe. After the war, he padded around...
Experimental programs to shorten the time between high school and shingle from nine to seven years are under way at the University of Vermont, Johns Hopkins and Northwestern. If such plans work well enough to be widely adopted, they should make preparation for the career of medicine less onerous and therefore more attractive. But nothing can be accomplished overnight or by fiat...