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...aloof and solitary bachelor, who liked to paint, cultivate roses and ponder mathematics, he lived in a strange Paris apartment that consisted of three rooms on three floors. The legends about him spread: that he hypnotized those he was questioning by spinning a small silver spoon as he talked, that the 110-lb. German police dog at his side named Nero had once guarded Germany's Hermann Göring. One morning last December, France awoke to surprising news: without a word of explanation, Premier Charles de Gaulle had fired Wybot as chief of the D.S.T. and banished...
Bruner's announcement of his proposal followed the CEP's Wednesday resolution to publically open debate over "spoon-feeding" in the Freshman year. At that time the Committee had discussed, on an exploratory level, the possibility of changing the plan of the Freshman year...
Members questioned whether there is "too much spoon-feeding" in the first year of college, William A. Klemperer '50, professor of Chemistry and a member of the CEP, said yesterday. In addition, the Committee weighed the relative merits of traditional type courses and seminars in awakening students' intellects...
Died. Alfred di Lelio, 77, Rome restaurateur known as "the King of Fettuccine," who-under a spotlight, with house lights dark and violins softly playing-mixed butter into the long noodles with a gold fork and spoon given to him by Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford, attracted food connoisseurs from all sides of the news, among them Hermann Göring, Dwight Eisenhower, Grace Kelly, Harry Truman, Heinrich Himmler, Princess Soraya, King Farouk, Pierre Laval; of a heart attack; in Rome. "There's a little trattoria on the Via della Scrofa where you get the best fettuccine...
...general comparison of European and American systems of higher education, Hartner pointed out that American universities impose stiffer concentration requirements than European universities do. "We feel it is unwise for students always to be spoon-fed," he declared, so that the only requirement made of most European students is that they choose some field of concentration...