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...deep yearning for growth grips Florida's state universities, but so far the system seems created half to rise and half to fall. On the main campus, the University of Florida at Gainesville, new and needed buildings sprout almost monthly; the now-rising University of West Florida in panhandle-tip Pensacola may have to draw students from neighboring states to fill its classrooms. Spanking new Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton is the nation's most computerized, automated and flexible institution of higher education; at Florida State University in Tallahassee, a frustrated president is all set to leave...
Unless a few nimble seven-footers sprout out of the floor of the IAB over-night, the Crimson will have to make the best possible use of its greatest asset--good shooting--to beat Cornell. In nine games this season the starting five plus leading reserves John Scott and Bill Fegley have sunk an incredible 49 per cent of their shots...
...ancient attitudes that Peking's modern masters have left unassailed-if only in self-defense. Party Boss Mao Tse-tung is 70 and beginning to show it. Premier Chou Enlai, 66, is ailing, as is Defense Minister Lin Piao, at 56 a mere bean sprout in the Peking Politburo, whose average age is 65. Often mentioned as Mao's successor, Party Secretary-General Teng Hsaio-ping is over 60. Beset by intimations of mortality, the Red leadership has launched a campaign to "cultivate millions of successors to carry on the cause...
Inevitably, some of September's is sues would wilt away before Election Day. Just as inevitably, others would sprout in full forensic flower. But last week, as what promises to be an extraordinary campaign began in earnest, perhaps the most extraordinary political fact was that some of the hardiest quadrennial issues did not figure to be issues...
Crises seemed to sprout like weeds while Chou was on the continent-Zanzibar's government fell in a bloody coup; the armies of Kenya, Tanganyika and Uganda mutinied; poison arrows began flying in the Congo. And although he claimed no responsibility for the flare-ups ("We Chinese are often surprised by compliments we do not deserve," he quipped dryly in Somalia), many Africans found it hard to swallow such a spate of coincidences. Whether he was guilty or not, they were glad to see Chou out of Africa...