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...Truman disclosed that he is taking another fling at "the authoring business," has signed up to turn out two new books. The first, Mr. Citizen, to be published next March, will express Truman's general views on today's world. The other, still untitled, but set for publication a year later, will be addressed to U.S. youth (10 to 16), and will set forth what junior citizens should know about U.S. history. Explained Author Truman of the latter project: "I hope to correct what I believe are some serious misconceptions of our past, particularly with respect...
...smaller but deeper scale is the new course (tuition: $1,000) at Syracuse University's Maxwell Graduate School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, which is aimed at training U.S. graduate students for foreign jobs with business and Government. Last week Maxwell's current eight students were finishing up three months' intensive study of U.S. society and policy, Italian culture and language. They will soon go to Rome for four more months of living with Italian families and adapting their skills (economics, journalism, forestry) to the country...
Outbound. Even more practical are programs at the University of Pittsburgh and Montana State College. Pittsburgh's Graduate School of Public and International Affairs runs short courses for foreign-bound executives; it also puts graduate students to work for two or three months in international agencies. Montana's ten graduate students (tuition: $500) are not only sharpening their specialties in the classroom. Next month they will put them to grass-roots work by living among the state's Cheyenne Indians and next winter in a Mexican village. The most ambitious scheme of all is planned by Manhattan...
Mather traveled 2,000 miles a month to get public support for a "freedom bill." When it passed three years ago, the trustees finally had the right to hire teachers...
...discredit Mather, Powers' supporters muttered darkly about "the educator with the maids and chauffeurs." (Mather has one maid; a non-uniformed university mechanic occasionally drives his car.) Mather is also the nation's lowest-paid public university president ($15,000 a year). But the propaganda cut deep; Mather resigned largely to "stop this personal monkey business" (he will stay through next June). To Educator Mather, it seems unlikely that culture-conscious Massachusetts will lose one of its oddest distinctions-spending less (2.32%) of the tax dollar for higher education than any other state in the Union...