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...campus political club, casually suggested that Milton apply for the consular service. Milton did; soon came a telegram offering him a consular post in Edinburgh. Milton uneasily approached Jardine for an honorable exit route from the faculty register. "Well," said President Jardine with a twinkle, "that's the sort of thing you have to figure out for yourself. But you're fired...
...scarring, jarring rough and tumble of partisan politics, played only a minor part. But once election was won, he took charge of an exhaustive preparation for office. A management-survey firm was hired, at his suggestion, to draft detailed analyses of each federal department and major agency. This sort of efficient staff work, at which both brothers excel, helped Ike take over in 1953 without any serious administrative hitches...
Avoid the Lopsided. Harvey Mudd College puts its students through two years of required courses before letting them choose a major from four technical fields: physics, chemistry, mathematics and engineering science. Whenever possible, liberal arts courses are keyed to the sciences. Students learn, for instance, the sort of culture England had when Newton developed his laws of motion. But the liberal arts range widely and independently. This year Harvey Mudd's 43 sophomores will write major research papers on nonscientific subjects. Says Assistant English Professor George Wickes: "We don't want to turn out lopsided kids...
Like Bermuda shorts, the tights (variously known as leotards, leotights and legotards) got their start last fall in Eastern women's colleges, where the girls like to be demure in a worldly sort of way. This summer, after the Manhattan fashion shows, they swept the U.S. Detroit's Winkelman Bros, department store sold out its entire stock of 1,000 leotards the first week they went on sale. Boston's Filene's has stocked them on each of its seven selling floors. On one day alone, a single Manhattan newspaper carried nine ads for the tights...
Died. Roger Martin du Gard, 77, French novelist and winner of the 1937 Nobel Prize for literature, for the ten-volume Les Thibault, a sort of hindsight saga of French life after the turn of the century; in Bellême, France...