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Wandering Scholars. At school, students miss no meals, although they may eat plain Bratwurst or Spätzle. Plainness in food is more than made up for by the low cost of the six months abroad. The university charges only about $1,000-the amount it collects for a boarding semester at Stanford-for plane fare to Germany, board, room and tuition. Thoughtfully, Stanford officials made no provision for return flights to the U.S. Best evidence of Landgut Burg's success: the university is seriously considering a similar outpost in Florence, has in the back of its mind...
...meant one thing: the only way Algeria would ever get self-government was by armed revolt. Avidly they began to read military history, concentrating on guerrilla warfare-memoirs of French resistance officers, Tito's partisans, Irish rebels. Their first attempt at an underground, the Organisation Spéciale, soon had 3,000 recruits, ample stocks of hidden weapons, too ambitious and complex a hierarchy, and a card file of members. Result: when French police once got a lead into the O.S., it swiftly collapsed...
...bombast-pricking headlines and jokes made by America's free world friends point right to the heart of the matter. The Viennese designation of "spätnik" (meaning "latenik") and the Mexican reference to "stallnik" are both gibes at the overblown way in which public relations men and the American press built a giant anticlimax by trying to create a climax where it was not normal for a climax to come-in the midst of a delicate experiment...
...plant piecemeal, but rejected the idea almost immediately. They tried sounding out the Big Three on buying out Studebaker-Packard. The only interest was shown by Ford, which plans to bring out a new line some time next year, priced between the Mercury and Lincoln, and could use SP's ready-made setup. After some dickering, Ford declined...
This week SP's last chance became a hot possibility. It is already dickering to sell out to a billion-dollar corporation, hopes to wind up the deal in a few weeks...