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...faculty includes Heart Surgeon C. Walton Lillehei. Oceanographer Athelstan Spilhaus, Physiologist Ancel Keys (TIME cover, Jan. 13) and Economist Walter Heller (TIME cover, March 3). Though weak in language and music, the university is strong in medical and physical sciences. Its English Department has long imported such author-teachers as Novelist Robert Penn Warren, currently employs Poet Allen Tate. The average student IQ is only 115 even at the slightly selective (top 60% of high school graduates) liberal arts college, yet Minnesota abounds with ambition. "There's a kind of eagerness to learn here," says one English professor. "They...
...Twentieth Century (CBS, 6:30-7 p.m.). First of a two-part series spelling out man's curiosity about the world's oceans. Guests on The Power of the Sea include Scuba Expert Jacques-Yves Cousteau and Dr. Athelstan Spilhaus, dean of the Institute of Technology at the University of Minnesota...
Icebergs & Porpoises. Scholar Spilhaus is a world authority on meteorology and oceanography, and a member of the U.S. National Committee for the International Geophysical Year. As a member of the executive board of UNESCO three years ago, he made-only half facetiously-some arresting proposals: hauling Antarctic icebergs to water the Mojave desert, dyeing the ocean to control absorption of solar heat and thereby curb hurricanes, training porpoises to shepherd fish...
...comic strips, the professor tries not to get too far out for his young readers, and he has lately taken to conning scientific journals and newsmagazines for topics ("I've become positively immoral about tearing pages out of magazines on airplanes"). Spilhaus and his artist, Carl Rose, dish out lightly sugared fare about the ionosphere and how it is used as a global "radio mirror," about the winds and how they flow round the earth, about harvesting fish with electric currents...
...Athel" Spilhaus, as his Minneapolis friends call him, was born in South Africa, the grandson of the Scottish founder of the country's educational system and son of Premier Jan Smuts's Portuguese-German trade commissioner. Ever since he left Cape Town to drive with his bride to Cairo, Spilhaus has been doing and saying things that astonish his less impulsive colleagues...