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There are some surprises in the full list of departmental ratings. Arizona's little-known anthropology faculty ranks high (twelfth), ahead of Minnesota and Washington; Pittsburgh's philosophy faculty ranks eighth, ahead of Chicago and Stanford; Delaware's chemical-engineering program ranks fifth, ahead of M.I.T. and Caltech. Yet no university in the South or Rocky Mountain states has even one "distinguished" department; the Southwest and Plains states have only two: Texas in German and Minnesota in chemical engineering...
...doctor's hard work and all the medical advances, the U.S. still has plenty of room for improvement. In incidence of infant mortality, it stands twelfth among all nations. The life expectancy of U.S. men is only 18th in the world. In ratio of doctors to population, the U.S. ranks 15th. This low rating for the world's richest country is partly due to the fact that U.S. doctors tend to cluster in urban areas, where there are better hospital facilities and more opportunity for consultation, leaving a lethal shortage in remote and rural areas. Another reason...
Dunn is presently at work on both a study of "Scots in America" and his "lifework"--a literary history of the twelfth century, a three-volume undertaking of which the first volume isn't quite finished...
...called for more consumer goods. By 1970 they hope to double production of television sets, treble the production of refrigerators and quadruple the production of cars. Yet even if Soviet automakers reach the goal-some 800,000 units a year-output would still amount to little more than one-twelfth of the U.S. production...
...Play of Daniel is a twelfth century musical drama about the life of the prophet Daniel. With music, song, and narration it tells the story of the writing on the wall, the lion's den, and the fall of Belshazzar. The Lowell House Music Society's production at St. Paul's Catholic Church is replete with processionals, swinging censers, and echoing trumpets. Backed by the cavernous marble nave, the play is infused with a sense of the ancient and the divine. Although the beautiful voice and lovely, archaic music are enough to make the program a success, there are faults...