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...piddlers from the real students, Hershey believes that it may be necessary to return to the system of national examinations and class ranking used during the Korean war. But he would rather see the colleges "clean their own stables." Although he is a trustee of his alma mater, Tri-State College, Hershey's philosophy of education was influenced more strongly by his early life on an Indiana farm and his long career in the army, than his days in the classroom...
...themselves the Hué intellectuals are a small voice in Viet Nam, but 14 labor leaders sat in on their seminars, and the tone of their manifesto was strangely reminiscent of Thich Tri Quang, leader of Viet Nam's militant Buddhist mobs, who by coincidence was in Hué for a rally of his own. Taking no chances, Ky softened the draft. The army would exempt intellectuals holding "important" positions, announced Defense Minister Nguyen Huu Co, and would give many others only a quick training course and return them to their desks-in uniform...
Died. Ellen Church Marshall, 60, first U.S. airline stewardess, on an 18-passenger, United Air Lines tri-motor; of head injuries received in a fall from a horse; in Terre Haute...
...hours a day of it-is interrupted only by a vegetarian lunch of curry, potato cutlet and tea (prepared by his wife) and a half-hour nap. A heart attack in 1959 and another seizure last year, shortly after he assumed the premiership, have done little to slow Shas-tri's dogged pace. He is blessed by an old Nehru tradition that saves him wear and tear: Indian Prime Ministers rarely hold diplomatic receptions...
...guest rooms ($28 to $48 a day) are sumptuously outfitted. All feature willow headboards from Milan, teak bedside tables, Thai bedspreads and framed collections of seashells, plus spacious balconies to sun on. Bathrooms have mirror walls, marble sink counters, built-in ice-cube makers and overhead infrared lamps. A tri-level restaurant affords virtually every table a front-row view of the ocean. Rockefeller's total costs come to an astronomical $100,000 per room-a handsome bet on the hope that intelligent and affluent tourists will spend the extra effort to get to his faraway paradise rather than...