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Cabinet making was proving harder than he expected. Early in the week he named, to no one's surprise, Arizona's Democratic Representative Stewart Udall as Interior Secretary. But Kennedy, as he got down to hard choices, was nonplused to find how few topnotch Cabinet prospects he knew personally outside the Congress, and he had set himself firmly against being pressured into appointing anyone of whose qualifications he was not completely convinced...
...adjoining box, TIME lists 50 private four-year liberal arts colleges that can give a good education to the high school senior who cannot get into Amherst & Co. Those listed are good, but not the only good ones. Some have long been topnotch, others are in the process of making names for themselves. What most of them have in common is that if they are not nationally known, they deserve to be. One happy result of the U.S. race for college is the rising fame of colleges that seemed obscure only a few years ago. Such good small schools...
...long time, Norway's nautical Princess Astrid, 28, has been known to her countrymen as "the sad one." Her sadness began in 1951, when her father, King Olaf V, himself a topnotch sailor, searched for a good hand to sail in Sunday regattas with his daughter. On deck soon came a prosperous Oslo clothier, Johan Martin Ferner, one of Scandinavia's most eligible bachelors but. alas, a commoner. The pair became discreetly inseparable. In 1953 Astrid's older sister, Princess Ragnhild, married a shipowner and sailed off to Rio de Janeiro. Convinced that one commoner...
...Hunter College. Last week, eight years and some 200 releases later, the latest Caedmon albums were on sale: three Shakespeare dramas, Macbeth, The Taming of the Shrew, Othello, the opening installments of an impressive recording project. Within four years, the partners hope to produce 34 other plays, all with topnotch casts, adding up to the first complete professional Shakespeare on records...
Down at Simmons. If the legislature must still approve such audacity, the least likely to disapprove are those most concerned-bright students. In suburban Downey near Los Angeles, for example, the schools have long been touted as topnotch. Last week the big issue in Downey was how to make this notion a reality. Reason: 14 recent graduates showed up at a school board meeting last month and stunned their elders with a bruising charge that their education had involved "too much play and too little work...