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...Your statement, "Another campus in Rolla . . . was created out of a school of mines and metallurgy" [Feb. 4], must surely be nominated as TIME'S understatement of the year. You missed a significant part of "Missouri's Upward Reach." The University of Missouri at Rolla is the largest undergraduate engineering and physical-science school west of the Mississippi, sixth largest in the nation. Founded in 1870 as the Missouri School of Mines and Metallurgy, it has long had departments in civil, electrical, mechanical, chemical, and geological engineering, mathematics, chemistry and physics, as well as ceramics, mining and metallurgy...
...growth. It took over the impoverished private University of Kansas City in 1963, made it a coequal university campus with schools of dentistry, pharmacy and music. It elevated a St. Louis junior college to similar status, will convert it to a four-year curriculum this fall. Another campus in Rolla, which is about 100 miles southwest of St. Louis in the Ozarks, was created out of a school of mines and metallurgy...
...first U.S. charge was turned back by anti-personnel mines set off electrically. A second, then a third U.S. attack was driven back by withering rifle and machine-gun fire. Finally, the G.I.s called for a flamethrower. It was brought up by helicopter, and Private Wayne Beck of Rolla, Mo., strapped it on his back for a fourth assault. Beck got within 60 ft. of the bunker before a mine and a bullet cut him down. Even as he fell, he sprayed the bunker with fire. Still the V.C. refused to surrender, so the troops called for Air Force Skyraiders...
...energetic, wiry young physician just out of medical school, Rolla Eugene Dyer started in to practice in Marlin, Texas. His career as family doctor lasted six weeks. "I went in with an old physician who turned over all his night work and out-of-town calls to me," he explains, "and I lost 18 pounds in six weeks. I decided not to practice medicine...
...that decision, back in 1915, did not mean that Dr. Dyer was giving up medicine. Soon he went to work for the U.S. Public Health Service. Last week, nearing 64 and retirement, ruddy, white-pompa-doured Rolla Dyer looked back on a career which mirrored the growth of PHS from a sort of emergency field service to a vast organization with elaborate research facilities in its National Institutes of Health. And the lushest, most fruitful growth of the Institutes (to a $50-million-a-year enterprise) had been in the last eight years under Dr. Dyer's directorship...