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...Kibbee and other officials were cautiously optimistic about their experiment. There was no exodus of professors, and there is no evidence that talented students were held back. Moreover, the task of having to cope with masses of students who lacked basic high school skills forced the university to revamp and modernize its teaching methods, potentially to the benefit of all students...
...when the Review was sold by Norton Simon, Inc., to a pair of young publishing entrepreneurs, Nicolas Charney and John Veronis, who had made a success of Psychology Today. Cousins eventually decided that he could get along with the new owners; last week, though, they revealed plans to revamp the Review and use it as a springboard to something Cousins may have trouble recognizing, let alone running...
...into effect 20 amendments to the constitution that are aimed at a fundamental overhaul of Yugoslavia's political and economic life. He knows his time is short, and he fears that his system of participatory and highly innovative Communism may not survive him. Thus he is seeking to revamp the governmental framework so that the country's future will depend not so much on individuals as on stable institutions designed to prevent a power struggle for dictatorship or, equally undesirable, a return to a deadening centralized bureaucracy. Tito is also seeking to ease Yugoslavia's severe regional...
Founded by its well-known neighbors (Amherst. Smith, Mount Holyoke, the University of Massachusetts), Hampshire is their testing ground and showcase for lively ideas. To revamp admission standards, the college does not require high school diplomas. Of this year's first 268 students, 42 had top College Board scores of between 700 and 800, but another 28 got in with low scores of 300 to 500. Hampshire invites applicants to submit "anything that can tell us something about yourself." Last year it received hundreds of odd ities ranging from homemade rugs to loaves of bread. The winners were chosen...
...lower court threw out Gizzi's claim. But the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit has just reversed the decision and ordered a jury trial to decide the facts. If Gizzi eventually collects from Texaco, the company may have to hire more skillful dealers-or revamp its advertising...