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...Though its $16 million endowment is paltry, its 600,000-volume library is tops for Washington campuses. Its first-rate drama department has enlivened capital culture with some 200 plays attended by 550,000 people. It boasts the nation's only school of canon law, complete with a topflight lay lawyer who converted from Judaism. Sometimes called the "West Point of the U.S. clergy," C.U. counts among its living alumni some 55 bishops and more than 40 college presidents...
...England Journal's warning covered reports from three topflight medical centers (Manhattan's Columbia-Presbyterian, Stanford University and the University of Michigan) of cases in which patients died after otherwise successful operations under halothane. Some autopsies showed the liver to have become a mass of dead tissue. Some patients who survived had liver disease for weeks or months...
...bonus they get a sound start on correct spelling. Author Wenkart has plenty of proof that parents hunger for her products. With almost no advertising, the books now sell briskly in nearly every state. They help teach literacy-hungry preschool children, but are also being used by such topflight private schools as New York City's Brearley. Sales to date: more than...
Tighter Controls. From Ford Beck brought a team of eight topflight executives, installed them in key jobs, and began to overhaul the company. Philco's research division, which had been competing with other Philco divisions for Government contracts, was given a mission to help other divisions. Two separate divisions that had been engaged in weapons and communications work were consolidated. And the almost autonomous departments within the consumer products division were eliminated to cut out overlapping activities. Beck also introduced Detroit-style cost accounting to keep close watch on production costs. His efforts produced results: manufacturing efficiency last year...
Gracious Living Can Be Fun. Topflight lecturers this year include such heavy-duty thinkers as Editor Norman Cousins ("Education and Our Foreign Policy"), Author Vance Packard ("The Changing Character of the American People"), ex-FBI Agent Herbert Philbrick ("Zero Hour for America"). There is still room for the woman's angle with such as Gossipist Hedda Hopper on Hollywood, and Etiquette Expert Amy Vanderbilt ("Gracious Living Can Be Fun"). And it seems there will always be John Mason Brown, the dean of them all, who has been dispensing wit and wisdom for 36 years, is currently attacking what...