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...attention to another of his campus contributions: the school's 135 Morehead Scholars. Mustering those about to graduate-each of whom had enjoyed a four-year, $5,000 grant-Union Carbide Engineering Consultant Morehead (who still commutes frequently to the company's Manhattan headquarters from suburban Rye) treated them to a brief bit of his practical philosophy: "Money doesn't bring happiness, but it helps to quiet the nerves...
...Pronounced "Rye...
Perhaps typical of those more open-minded YSF members was the Hunter College student who was discussing J. D. Salinger's Cathcher in the Rye. Because it idealizes childhood, defends rebelliousness, suggests that bourgeolse society is "phony," and employs a few words, Catcher has become a of ideological contention. journals hailed it as a master while the National Review att it for sounding like Rousse some parents' "decency" goutempted to have it banned fro schools...
...laboratory in a cornfield outside Moscow, Lysenko gets every facility and encouragement. He goes right on trying to change nature in far-out ways by grafting pine branches on fir trees, injecting the blood of Plymouth Rock chickens into Buff Orpington hens, trying to turn wheat into rye. He complains righteously against Science Academy President Aleksandr Nesmeyanov (TIME cover, June 2, 1958) for criticizing his experiments. Says he pointedly: "I am infinitely happy that my modest work is highly prized by the party government and Nikita Khrushchev in person...
...Salinger, 41, talented chronicler of the prodigious young (The Catcher in the Rye...