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...Kimpton announced his briskest reforms to date: appointment of Dean Simpson and complete re-establishment of major studies within the college. The full-size curriculum is likely to command respect at last for the sagging college of the wealthy (endowment: $186 million) university; the new dean already has it. Trim, clip-toned, British-born Alan Simpson went to Chicago in 1946 as a newly demobbed Royal Artillery major. He is now a U.S. citizen, married to an associate editor of the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists...
...visitors the new housing project across the river from Ciudad Trujillo, but it is very small potatoes compared with the slums that make up the bulk of the city. The hovels are all freshly painted, generally an ocher or a sky blue or sea green, with a barn-red trim framing the doors and windows. That's the way El Benefactor wants it, and everybody paints once or twice a year. But the houses themselves are miserable one-or two-room shacks, so old and termite-riddled that they list crazily against one another. The children are naked...
...trim little (5 ft. 3 in., 112 Ibs.) blonde, Marilyn does not have the strength for a big game, relies instead on steady retrieving to force her opponent into errors. Under the tutelage of Coach Tommy Bartlett, she has learned to keep her returns deep to prevent men from charging the net. Says Teammate Wirt Gammon Jr.: "Marilyn may not be the best in the world at putting the ball away, but she just keeps hitting it back, hitting it back...
Faces set in determination, the three-member delegation from the directors of the Deutsche Presse-Agentur, West Germany's largest wire service, walked out of the board meeting in Cologne's posh Hotel Excelsior Ernst and up to the trim little man who had been waiting in the lobby. The man listened to only a few words before quietly interrupting: "I gather you want...
...Trim, twinkle-eyed Bishop Bayne, 50, is noted for his energy as well as his outspoken, often unorthodox ways; at last summer's five-week-long Lambeth Conference, he was chief architect of a trenchant report on "The Family in Contemporary Society," endorsing contraception as a liberating force in family planning...