Word: novas
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Despite the financial obstacles facing most private universities (TIME cover, June 23), academe still has fearless optimists who figure they know how to beat the odds. No one is more con fident of ultimate success than Warren J. Winstead, president of the brand-new Nova University near Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Brashly aimed at becoming a Southern counterpart to Caltech and M.I.T., Nova U. is being guided by a blue-ribbon panel of top educators, will open its first classes this fall with just 21 graduate students, all on full fellowships-and also with 25 Ph.D. professors...
...major scholars with big salaries (up to $30,000) and complete freedom to research and teach only in their graduate-level specialties. Winstead shrewdly argues that "serious graduate students couldn't care less about the name of the school. They want to study under specific professors. The name Nova didn't have; the professors it could...
...National Academy of Sciences; Emilio Segrè, Berkeley's Nobel Laureate in physics; Athelstan Spilhaus, former dean of the University of Minnesota's Institute of Technology. That kind of backing helped Winstead overcome a handicap of most new schools: lack of accreditation. Impressed by the credentials of Nova's advisers, the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools advised Washington that Nova should qualify for federal funds...
Deadly Vassar Girls. Kingman spent his summers sailing off Martha's Vineyard, became so skilled that in 1935 and 1937 he scored clean sweeps to win the Prince of Wales Cup in "Acadia"-class international competition in Nova Scotia. He is still an enthusiastic boat man who, notes a friend, "minimizes his tacks by coming closer to the white water than other sailors will" and is co-owner of a 30-ft. ketch, Auriga, with Williams President John Sawyer. Brewster sees a link between sailing and running a university, contends wryly that "there is always the infinite capacity...
...balance the natural growth of the fish against the intensity of fishing." The industry, meanwhile, is moving to what it hopes will be more productive waters. The Gulf of Mexico is one possibility. Gulf menhaden, a separate species, is still abundant. Another possibility is the fishing beds off Nova Scotia and Newfound land, where herring runs plentifully and can be used as a substitute for menhaden. In fact, Litton Industries and W. R. Grace see a potential boom in herring, and have teamed up with the Newfoundland government to test new fishing and processing techniques...