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...scenes, particularly one where she is locked in a box through which he plunges swords. But the evening's peak comes with a whirling and jubilant "Grand Impérial Cirque de Paris" dance number, paced by the memorable little man of La Plume de Ma Tante, Pierre Olaf. Fetchingly nimble and stylish as a dancer, mime and clown, Olaf-except for this number-is reduced to a colorless speaking part. Had his face, his feet and his engaging Frenchness been oftener used, Carnival! might have seemed oftener magical...
Harvard prides itself on setting a standard for the country's other educational institutions, but it seems that a small Midwestern college has come up with an idea that the University might well consider. Next fall, St. Olaf College of Northfield, Minn., will institute a four-year guaranteed cost plan insuring students that their tuition fee will not be increased at any time during their college careers. All raises in fees and tuition will be effective only with the incoming freshman class...
Clearly a rigid student-college contract like St. Olaf's would not be feasible here; freshman would justifiably protest paying for part of upperclass-men's education, and the Administration would have difficulty making ends meet without the added income from present students...
Some variations on the St. Olaf theme, however, would indicate that the College is concerned with helping parents and students budget the four-year haul. One Administration official dismissed the idea as "unfeasible" because, he said, the College can not forsee tuition rises at all. University economists maintain, however, that they can estimate fairly accurately when and how much tuition must rise to meet advancing costs...
...long time, Norway's nautical Princess Astrid, 28, has been known to her countrymen as "the sad one." Her sadness began in 1951, when her father, King Olaf V, himself a topnotch sailor, searched for a good hand to sail in Sunday regattas with his daughter. On deck soon came a prosperous Oslo clothier, Johan Martin Ferner, one of Scandinavia's most eligible bachelors but. alas, a commoner. The pair became discreetly inseparable. In 1953 Astrid's older sister, Princess Ragnhild, married a shipowner and sailed off to Rio de Janeiro. Convinced that one commoner...