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Only a block away from the Berkeley campus of the University of California, one of the world's proudest scientific centers, is the Pacific School of Religion. In last week's Christian Century, the school's dean, the Rev. Dr. Robert Elliot Fitch, gives his scientific friends and neighbors a gentle warning about the temptations that threaten the "new priesthood of science...
Dance with Mum. Tommy starred in a film (The Tommy Steele Story), followed such stars as Marlene Dietrich and Noel Coward into London's swank Café de Paris, and told his fans how the posh life felt: "I'm the proudest kid in the world-I've danced with my mum in the Café de Paris...
...Even the proudest firms are titans leaning on the tots. At Grosset & Dunlap, children's books comprise two-thirds of the firm's publishing operation; 35% of Random House's sales volume is estimated to be in juveniles; fully $13 million of Simon & Schuster's $18 million gross last year came from books for kids...
Functional planning and flexibility of design are the proudest claims of modern architecture. The era when a Matthews or Weld Hall might rise like some disoriented Phoenix from the bosom of Harvard Yard is supposedly gone forever. Then, in the midst of enlightenment, a great seven-story cliche makes its way to Plympton Street, somewhat naked and completely out of character...
...Before World War II, the proudest moment in the declining years of the great, square-rigged cargo carriers was the annual "grain race" from Australia to England. Some 20 windjammers hauled anchor down under at the start of that race in 1932, but by 1949 only two were left to make the run: the Pamir and her sister ship, the Passat. One by one, the others had fallen foul of wind and wave and the economic pressures of their own huffing and puffing competitors. But even though the world of commerce chose to bypass the windjammers, there were many, particularly...