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...successor, and the choice is an important one: A.I.D. has reformed and refined its operations, but it lacks a central mind to determine the criteria of eligibility for aid and to persuade the Congress of the value of experiment. There is some thought of appointing Mr. Sargent Shriver, a splendid Peace Corps Director whose designation by the President might be all that is needed to discredit the entire Kennedy family. Only one man seems to have all the necessary virtues: Mr. Eugene Black, who just retired from the World Bank. Mr. Black can do more than run a program superbly...
...Unless a man has a social conscience," says one professor who does, "there is nothing here to bother him." Hunting and fishing are splendid; three-bedroom faculty houses rent for $60 a month. Ole Miss has a few highly able students, as proved by the 19 Rhodes scholars that it has produced in 57 years. As for the others, says History Professor James W. Silver: "In a sophomore class of 30, before the end of the first month I'm talking to only five. If the rest don't bother me, I don't bother them." More...
...also includes "labs" out on the football field. The students box Greek style, lope like Greek marathoners, toss a round stone "shot," skim a flat stone "discus," compete in wildly Hellenic wrestling free-for-alls. Winners go without Achilles' top prize, "fair-girdled women," but the exercise is splendid, and Sewanee's phys ed department is ecstatic...
...ceremony that was meaningful to a 12th century Roman is lost on a 20th century African. Mission priests have asked to use more native music and dances as part of the rite; an American liturgist even suggested the use of Negro spirituals in some services. "The Gregorian chant is splendid," said one English bishop, "but the church is neither a theater nor a conservatory of music...
...Longest Day. General Zanuck's war games are played off like cops and robbers. With 42 stars and a musical score by Ludwig van Beethoven and Paul Anka to inspire them, Zanuck's troops have a splendid time on D-day outfoxing those funny old Germans. Day is three hours long, and while it is never boring, it is basically an episodic documentary that sometimes has the bad taste to say: war is swell...