Word: sussex
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Like any other elderly party off to London for lunch at the club or a spot of Christmas shopping, the squire of Birch Grove boarded a first-class railway carriage at Haywards Heath station near his home in exurbanite Sussex. Curtained by the Times, he rode in upper-crust anonymity into London's Victoria Station, fumbled absentmindedly for his pass at the ticket barrier, and left the station on foot. His destination this time was not 10 Downing Street or Admiralty House, but 12 Catherine Place, where Harold Macmillan stayed last week with his son Maurice and daughter...
...green and pleasant town of Westham in Sussex last week, the Rev. Harold Coulthurst performed one of the rarest of Anglican ceremonies: rehallowing an altar. Rehallowing was required because several days before, four men had been surprised while in the midst of a mysterious ritual inside Westham's 11th century church of St. Mary the Virgin. "The men were trying to communicate with evil spirits," declared Coulthurst. "They were chanting some sort of mumbo jumbo. They were definitely in league with the devil...
Their avowed ambition is to shake up nearly every hoary tradition of Britain's 23 other universities. "There has never been anything like this in Britain," gloats John S. Fulton, vice chancellor (president) at one of the seven, the University of Sussex. "This is rightly called an explosion. Things will never be the same again." From Cape Wrath to Land's End, Britons are avid to explode. "We are in a mess about our education," says Sir Charles Snow. "There is too little of it. It is too narrow both in spread and concept." Under fire...
...give Britain 30 universities by 1965, the University Grants Committee -which administers government funds while fending off government control-first authorized the new Sussex campus in Brighton, the holiday town on England's Channel coast. Then it opened a national competition for six more universities of 3,000 students apiece. To snag them, towns had to offer cash, 200-acre sites and fitting cultural attractions. Scenting profits as well as prestige, 20 cities and towns launched a regular gold rush, cranked up lively boosters and lavish brochures (Lancaster: "A progressive, prosperous and well-balanced community...
Whatever these new schools become, the men creating them are counting on what Sussex Dean Ian Watt, fresh from the University of California, calls Britain's rising "rebels against the social order"-youngsters fed up with established codes and hypocrisies. "The new universities will be beneficiaries of their spirit," says Watt. Impatient to innovate, Sussex Vice Chancellor Fulton sums up the view of all his colleagues: "This is a great adventure...