Word: scholaritis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Robert Wilson, 71, former board chairman of Standard Oil Co. of Indiana, administrator, inventor, scholar, and recently retired member of the Atomic Energy Commission; of a stroke; in Geneva (see SCIENCE...
...Colonial Governor." Few members of the species have worked harder toward self-extinction than Sir Hugh, who spent 30 years in the colonial service and was Britain's last Governor General in Cyprus before independence. In this sprightly autobiography, which combines exploits worthy of James Bond with a scholar's critical look at current history, Foot draws some important lessons from Britain's race to haul down the flag...
EUGENE ONEGIN, by Vladimir Nabokov. Novelist-Scholar Nabokov has rendered Alexander Pushkin's highly romantic 19th century novel-in-verse with greater accuracy and range of meaning than any previous translation. By contrast, his volumes of notes show Nabokov as an obsessive genius of the species that he kidded so guilefully in his novel Pale Fire...
...famed Archaeologist and Yale Scholar Hiram Bingham first thought he had found Vilcabamba when he discovered the spectacular ruins at Machu Picchu. But most people agreed that Vilcabamba was still out there. Now, another exploration party thinks that it has finally found the lost city behind the ranges. Until the area is excavated and the preliminary findings confirmed, no one can be certain. But throughout the U.S. and Latin America last week, archaeologists were eagerly watching-and hoping...
...students for nearly a century. Others, neighborhood schools like Chicago's Francis W. Parker and Germantown (Pa.) Friends, have been admitting Negroes when they move into the neighborhood. For most of the rest, the Negro on campus-if there was one-was the showcase star athlete, the brilliant scholar, the boy from Nigeria, or the son of a prominent clergyman. In twelve years the National Scholarship Service and Fund for Negro Students managed to place just 275 students in 46 prep schools. Says David Mallery, research director for the 700-member National Association of Independent Schools: "It is pretentious...