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...later, while silent seafarers watched transfixed, Andrea Doria poised a polished fantail and motionless screws in the air, then slid down to the ocean's dark bottom. Behind her the sea bubbled and quivered a hundred hues of green. The surface shuddered, the bobbing rubble tossed on the swell until the liner was well down...
Watching professors struggle with bigger and bigger classes as enrollments inexorably swell, many a college president has eyed TV with a seemingly simple solution in mind: Why not put the professors on television and pipe it to several classrooms? Last week, in London's Sunday Times, Oxford Graduate Geoffrey Wagner, who took part in an experimental televised English-literature course as a lecturer at Columbia University, reported his personal experiences in terms that may give college presidents pause. His verdict: TV will...
Last Frontier? Poet-Novelist Franklin Folsom, a Rhodes scholar and onetime lettuce packer, may be just the agent to swell that number. He has illuminated his gloomy subject with literary style, and Exploring American Caves−with its scores of enchanting photographs and its bold plunge into virtually virgin writing territory−may prove to be classic cave literature. "Caves," proclaims Spelunker Folsom, "are, in a sense, the last frontier. [Those] who explore the underground night have yet to reach the end of even the best-known caverns in this country...
...fiesta was weeklong. Samuel Cardinal Stritch's Committee for the Spanish Speaking in Chicago was set up to accentuate the positive among the city's Puerto Ricans, block the growth of prejudice and discrimination against a group that numbers only 20,000 now but is expected to swell to 100,000 in ten years...
...Bermuda reef. But Finisterre's owner, Carleton Mitchell, a wealth-upholstered free-lance writer and photographer, had hardly minded. Said he: "Really, it was a wonderful race. We had terrific meals, and outside of creature discomforts like water running down your neck to your navel, it was just swell...