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...Notre Dame's President Theodore M. Hesburgh, a Holy Cross priest, has at 43 become one of U.S. Catholicism's most distinguished educators. Along with numerous public jobs, notably the Civil Rights Commission, he has done much to prove that Notre Dame (5,500 men) is far from a football foundry. In 1958 he launched a $66 million drive to boost "academic excellence" in the next decade; much of his first Ford money will go toward a new library and research in humanities and social science...
...both a priest and a psychologist, Father Raymond A. Roesch, 46, is a persuasive fellow. Last year he became president of the Roman Catholic Marist University of Dayton, which needs persuasion. Dayton is one of the biggest private colleges (6,296 students) in a state brimful of good ones, but its main products are piety and basketball. Some of its academic departments operate on budgets as low as $1,000 a year. Last week Father Roesch passed on some newly won presidential wisdom: U.S. foundations "bet on horses that have won before." Then he launched a real horse race...
Barker writes of his African education, and of the shy, proud, solemn Zulus who taught him, with compassion, humor and a certain sense of shame. He is no revolutionary, but nonetheless shares, with Novelist Alan Paton and the crusading Anglican priest Trevor Huddleston, a searing hatred of apartheid and its works. Barker's own hospital community was, and still is, racially integrated-not to satisfy any liberal belief, he says, but simply because it is natural: in so small a social organism, survival depends upon each man's becoming a good neighbor to the man next...
...Judas Priest!" Up in the stands in seat 18, row 10, entrance 5 was a short, bald track coach who knew better than any other man just how much the 1,500 meters would cost Johnson and Yang. U.C.L.A.'s Ducky Drake had trained them both. For two days he had alternately worried about Johnson ("He's tense. Loosen up, Ray. Loosen up! Relax"), and exhorted Yang ("Judas priest! Get that blasted head down on that high jump"). Drake guessed that Johnson would forget about winning the 1,500 meters, try simply to stick close enough to Yang...
...like too much Liederkranz. In one of his rare excursions outside the Hotel Splendide, Funnyman Bemelmans draws a demon-driven adolescent who swears like a legionnaire, squeezes the head of an infant like a tennis ball, flips hatchets instead of hips at suitors, does her best to entice a priest, and sets fire to a convent...