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Applications shot up 15 per cent for the Class of 1963, reaching a total of 2204. Mrs. Stimpson noted that many more girls applied to Radcliffe from the West and Central states, an indication of the school's spreading renown...
Died. Renato Bartoccini, 70, Italian archaeologist, curator of Rome's Villa Giulia, world's greatest Etruscan museum, who won renown with the 1924 discovery of Leptis Magna, Roman city in Libya, later unearthed the Etruscan cities Feronia and Vulci in central Italy; of a heart attack: in Rome...
CHRYSLER PRESENTS A BOB HOPE SPECIAL (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Season premiere of a new Bob Hope series. Guests are Dean Martin, James Garner, Barbra Streisand, Tuesday Weld and Les Brown and his Band of Renown...
...this is changing fast under President Gaylord P. Harnwell, a high-energy physicist of national renown. When he succeeded the feckless Harold Stassen in 1953, Harnwell launched a fiveyear, $750,000 self-study, the most exhaustive ever attempted by a U.S. university. As a result of the study-and, as one dean puts it, of the fact that "the right people died"-Penn has been reborn...
Ramsey enjoys worldwide renown for his lack of small talk. When Ramsey was subwarden of Lincoln Theological College, recalls Canon Herbert Waddams of Canterbury Cathedral, he had occasion to receive a young man seeking admission to the seminary. Outside, the clock struck 2:45. Silence reigned: awed youth, shy priest. Presently the clock struck 3. At last Ramsey spoke. "I think you'll find Lincoln a rather quiet place," he said...