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During the day, life in the mountain valley where the mission's 4,500-acre tract is located still appears as serene as it was in 1964 when the present rector, Father Keble Prosser, first came out from England to run St. Augustine's. The dirt road twists and turns its way up a hillside, into which are built low, one-story brick classroom buildings and dormitories, shaded by long verandas and heavy foliage. St. Augustine's 14th century bell continues to ring out across the valley. As the African sun climbs through the mist to strike...
...situation leads to disrespect for court orders and some spectacular snatches. After Pittsburgh Millionaire Seward Prosser Mellon and Wife Karen were divorced in 1974, a Pennsylvania court awarded custody of their two girls to Mellon. During a visit, however, their mother took the children to New York and later gained legal custody in a court there. Two years ago, three men employed by Mellon seized the two girls as they were on their way to a Brooklyn school, and the millionaire still has them...
...Among them: outsiders Harvard Dean Henry Rosovsky; Stanford President Richard Lyman; and Thomas Ehrlich, former dean of Stanford Law School, now president of the Legal Services Corporation. The list may also include two former Yale undergraduates: William Muir ('54), a professor of political science at Berkeley, and Prosser Gifford ('51), a Rhodes scholar and dean of Amherst since 1967. Among Yale faculty members and administrators thought to be on the list are A. Bartlett Giamatti, director of humanities division, and Hanna Holborn Gray, Yale's provost and, after Brewster's resignation, acting president...
...people are William Scranton, former governor of Pennsylvania, Prosser Gifford, professor of Government and dean of faculty at Amherst College and William McNerney, president of Blue Cross...
...Prosser plan has already enrolled 362 elderly people, many of whom are attracted by the low cost. "When you get older, you have to watch your pennies," says Mrs. Helen Erickson, 69. "You would be surprised at how many people over 65 wouldn't even think of going for a checkup." Other hospitals have expressed interest in copying the program. Prosser Memorial Hospital has had inquiries from health officials across the nation, and officials of two nearby hospitals are so impressed that they are thinking about setting up a Prosser plan in their own communities...