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COLISEUM (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). A smorgasbord of sports spectaculars starting this week with a visit to the New Vienna Ice Extravaganza at Brussels' Cirque Royal. Hugh O'Brian hosts, and Herman's Hermits will be his special guests. Premiere...
...Society innovations, seemed to be having some second thoughts. "Those programs," he said in an interview, "aren't going to be fulfilled in any one year. I've told a number of my friends, don't look upon the Great Society as if it is a smorgasbord, where you have to come and fill yourself to a point where you are literally ill at the first feast. There will still be plenty if you continue to take it in reasonable amounts year after year, rather than try to do it all at once. In other words...
...simply to be wholesome girls who make normal, well-adjusted housewives and civic-minded citizens. One important reason for that reputation is Wellesley College President Margaret Clapp, 55, who emphasizes a well-balanced liberal-arts education for her girls. She is a sharp critic of what she calls "the smorgasbord school," where students get a wide, undirected choice of elective courses that adds up to a smattering of everything and a challenge from nothing. She prefers what she calls the "plate dinner-and-dessert" menu, in which basic courses are balanced with a few enticing extras. That philosophy comes fittingly...
Everywhere in Sweden a traveler is likely to find smorgasbord, attractive women-and the 100-year-old Skandinaviska Bank. Ranging from a new highly computerized branch at Sundsvall in the northern timberland to a modest cottage draped with a fishing net on the island of Tjorn, Skandinaviska's 284 branches thoroughly cover the country. While assiduously courting the rural shepherds and woodsmen, it does not overlook the city folk, either at home or abroad. In the heart of Stockholm, it has for the past two years been bulldozing away hills and laying girders for an eleven-story stone...
...oldest museums are among the best. The Science Museum of Philadelphia's Franklin Institute boasts 425 audience-participation devices ranging from a simple prism that refracts light rays to a 350-ton Baldwin locomotive that moves up and down a track. Boston's "science smorgasbord," as Director Henry Bradford Washburn calls it, includes a bucket pendulum that dribbles sand in harmonic patterns, a working cloud chamber, and a reproduction of a ship's bridge equipped with radar, sonar, gyroscopes, steering mechanism and a view of the Charles River...