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Before this year, the number of students applying rose by about 80 with each succeeding class. But the present freshman class has yet to surpass the total for the class of 1964, and it is doubtful that late test scores will raise the freshman total by more than five or six students...
Values & Tradition. President Kennedy and his Administration clearly have it within their power to begin the job of building an alliance of free nations sharing the same values and traditions. The U.S. is by far the richest nation on earth; its allies in Western Europe far surpass Russia in wealth, industrial strength and manpower skill. Despite Nikita Khrushchev's vaunted boast to "bury" capitalism, the Soviet world is decades away from matching U.S. productivity and has not come near to solving a critical agricultural problem (TIME, May 26). In the so-called "peaceful competition" with the West, Khrushchev...
...miscreant slave, one plantation owner forced him to watch while plantation hands took turns raping the Indian's wife, then had the man emasculated. After a visit to Brazil in 1900, Lord Bryce, famed British Ambassador to the U.S., wrote: "The methods employed in the collection of rubber surpass in horror anything hitherto reported to the civilized world during the last century. Flogging, torturing, burning and starving to death have been constantly and ruthlessly employed." Along with the white man came his diseases: in the native village of Meinaco, 177 Indians died after being exposed to a white...
...chafes at the "we happy few" exclusiveness and smugness of the Cambridge community, and finds himself so exasperated that at times he is hoping that Berkeley will surpass Harvard "in the contest for top place on the academic prestige-scale...
...beauty and the number of natural and technological marvels surpass belief," says one French tourist. "But the diversity and variety of America may indeed be a handicap. The one thing that I missed here, and which most Europeans miss, is a sense of intimacy." Most visitors hope to save such sights as Texas, Las Vegas and the Pacific Northwest for a second trip. With "Visit the U.S." now a government policy, they should get the chance...