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...victory, worth $1,800 was sweet for Betsy. An erratic player who, at her scrambling best, is the most exciting female golfer in the world, she was last year's leading money winner (with a record $26,760) on the women's tour, has been a topflight pro ever since she graduated with Phi Beta Kappa honors from the University of Texas in 1950. Taut and moody on the golf course, Betsy lugs a portable phonograph with her on the tour, relaxes between rounds with Wagnerian opera. This season, Betsy had been in a frustrating slump...
...begun serving Alaska. It rolls out useful pamphlets, from "How to Cook Moosemeat" to "Hints for Wilderness Wives." Its four community colleges (Anchorage, Juneau, Ketchikan, Palmer) teach everything from aircraft maintenance to Tlingit Indian culture. To help exploit Alaska's rich resources, it rummages heaven and earth. The topflight Geophysical Institute has probably done more aurora borealis research than any other group in the world. The mining school, with its own mine under the campus, has taught 18,000 Alaskans how to find gold, uranium and tungsten. In the works: a new marine-science institute for studying a coastline...
...Whistling softly to remind herself to breathe, svelte U.S. Olympic Skier Betsy Snite, 21, swivel-hipped down the steep, tight trail on Mount Mansfield, completed her two runs a full 4.4 sec. ahead of a topflight Olympic field to win the women's slalom...
...expert on currency engraving for the U.S. Treasury Department. Despite the family's connections in high finance, young Quesada had no dreams of becoming a dollar scion. He flitted from school to school-Wyoming Seminary (Methodist) in Kingston, Pa., the University of Maryland, Georgetown University-played topflight tennis and some football, and did little else. He sold Crackerjack at Griffith Stadium, spent many a summer as a lifeguard in the Tidal Basin Pond near the Washington Monument...
...Corporation in Modern Society (Harvard University Press; $6.75), 14 topflight economists, lawyers and political scientists take a searching and comprehensive look at the corporate giant. A. A. Berle Jr., whose books on corporate power have become classics, calls the book, in his foreword, "the best body of material on the American corporate system yet offered." Edited and with an introduction by Edward S. Mason, professor of economics at Harvard, it is held together by a single theme: the U.S. corporation is a new and unique system that has left behind old-style capitalism and socialism alike-and suffered some worrisome...