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...Council's second Assembly had come from 48 countries to Chicago's suburb, Evanston (pop. 73,641), where comfortable houses sit well back from the elm-shaded streets and unfenced lawns flow comfortably together like the town's friendly citizens. Evanston has the Garrett Bible Institute, Northwestern University, the new headquarters of Rotary International and teetotal Prohibition. Last week homey Evanston was doing its best to make a home for Christianity...
...traffic lights and parked convertibles moved icon-like faces, brown and bearded, with heavy gold chains and swirling robes. Clutching blue Official Handbooks printed in French, German and English, they hurried from hall to meeting room to auditorium to teas, shuttled in 20 buses along the long straggle of Northwestern's campus to the plenary sessions at McGaw Hall...
...play informer against others who might have been members too. ¶ Appointment of the week: Clark George Kuebler, 46, president of Ripon College, Wis., to succeed J. Harold Williams as second provost of the University of California's Santa Barbara College. A former assistant professor of classics at Northwestern University, Kuebler took over Ripon when only 35. In the eleven years since, he has upped enrollments from 160 to 600. boosted his endowment from $750,000 to more than $3,000,000, strengthened the quality of his faculty by appointing only Ph.D.s from first-class universities to professorships. "Education...
...There. Meeting on the campus of Northwestern University are 600 delegates from 161 churches in 48 countries, representing more than 160 million Christians (notable exception: the Roman Catholics). Also present: 150 consultants, 120 youth consultants, 600 accredited visitors, plus fraternal delegates from related organizations, and observers...
...handed it over to 83,275 landless peasants. Last week the new President laid down a stopgap program of his own for dealing with the most explosive of Guatemala's problems. Drawn up by Jorge Skinner Klee, 32, a lawyer who took postgraduate work (in anthropology) at Northwestern, the President's decree appears to accept land reform in Guatemala as a necessity, and undertakes to consolidate it while redressing some of its more glaring injustices...