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...that his father has owned since 1920. A wiry child who could read swiftly and understandingly at the age of four, Dillon was sent to be educated in private schools. The most challenging was the Pine Lodge School in Lakehurst. N.J., whose headmaster insisted that his every pupil learn the art of reading fast-and Dillon today riffles through even technical papers at 400 words a minute. While at Pine Lodge. Dillon met and became friends with three heirs to another no table fortune: Nelson. Laurance and John Rockefeller...
...statistics did not seem to overly damage Sorensen's brief. The last stronghold of the one-room schoolhouse, Nebraska has more school systems than any other state-3,722, including 495 with no pupils at all and 1,823 with schools of 15 pupils or less. Nebraska believes in local control and local financing of schools; 91.4% of school revenue comes from local governments, and state aid is sparse. No state depends more on local financing; only Massachusetts spends less per capita on state aid to public education. While Nebraska is 25th in per capita personal income...
Behind the delay was a name-calling hassle between Switzerland's two traditional city rivals, Zurich and Basel, over the politics of Gollwitzer, a onetime pupil of Barth who was imprisoned for five years in a Russian P.O.W. camp. Gollwitzer, screamed Zurich papers, was a "proCommunist" who opposed West German rearmament, atomic weapons and Adenauer's policies in general. Basel's National-Zeitung jumped to Gollwitzer's defense: "This man is a radical Christian in the original sense of the word, who believes that Christ did not die on the Cross to serve as a mascot...
California-born Bill Smith, on the other hand, prefers chamber works to vocal compositions, has written some highly praised pieces (Divertimento for Norvo, Concerto for Clarinet and Combo) for chamber jazz groups. Juilliard trained and, like Eaton, a Roger Sessions pupil, Smith, 34, was a fellow student with Dave Brubeck at Mills College and a charter member of the original Brubeck Octet. He is still under contract to Brubeck, is on leave from his teaching post (composition) at U.S.C...
...tasks at Radcliffe was to create "an atmosphere of expectation," a feeling among 'Cliffies that they are closely connected to the University and its faculty. Similarly, in Krupnick's view, most students are now estranged from their courses because of the virtual absence of productive dialogue between teacher and pupil...