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Hairy feet and all, Frodo Baggins is the reluctant hero of this year's "In" book-a three-volume fantasy called The Lord of the Rings. Written by J.R.R. Tolkien, 74, a retired Oxford philologist, the Rings trilogy was first published in the U.S. twelve years ago, had a small but dedicated coterie of admirers, including Poet W. H. Auden and Critic C. S. Lewis, but languished largely unread until it was reprinted last year in two paperback editions.* Since then, campus booksellers have been hard put to keep up with the demand. At the Princeton bookstore, says...
...increase of 2.8% in 1965. Three British steelworkers are needed to produce the steel that one U.S. worker turns out. The British auto industry, 15% overstaffed, turns out 5.2 cars per worker a year compared with 5.6 per worker in Germany and eleven per worker in the U.S. Oxford University's Allan Flanders, an industrial-relations expert, estimates that industry is 40% overstaffed. Sir Maurice Laing, president of the Confederation of British Industry, warns that the country appears to be "hellbent on industrial suicide...
Britain's Labor Prime Minister Harold Wilson, 50, must have been feeling like a bigger monkey than the melancholy thane. The Oxford University Liberal Club, in which he'd enjoyed honorary membership "for his past and present services to the Liberal Party," decided in its elections this time that 'Arold had moved too far left of Liberal. "We felt his continued membership would be a blot on the club's escutcheon," sniffed the group's secretary-elect. Their replacement was sufficiently weird: Mrs. Eleanor Bone, High Priestess of the Worshipful Coven of London Witches. Croaked...
They will meet professors who want to use the Institute to further their studies of government, and studies who are interested in politics. The institute's programs for undergraduates tentatively include a debating "union" similar to those at Oxford and Cambridge; a series of seminars on political topics led by institute visitors; summer jobs in political offices campaigns; and formal and informal appearances by the Institute's visiting politicians. Neustadt emphasizes, however, that all these programs are experimental and may changes once the Institute formally gets underway this fall...
Lowell was a serious contender for the Oxford University poetry chair in February, but was defeated in the final balloting by Edmund Blunden, a British poet...