Word: ultramodernism
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Desperate Shortage. Today the college's spacious 127-acre Western campus (20 minutes from San Francisco by freeway) also contains glossy ultramodern buildings, and its 770 students are broadly drawn from 45 states and 24 countries; nearly a fourth of the girls get financial help to meet the $3,000 annual charges. No longer interested in a protective, genteel education, Mills girls plunge eagerly into such unsheltered activities as tutoring Negro youngsters in Oakland and studying city government by taking part-time municipal jobs. Blessed with a legion of loyal and generous alumnae, Mills has nearly doubled faculty salaries...
...Prutting concedes that diagnosis is improving. But he insists that even ultramodern technical aids do not make it infallible, so the findings should always be checked. To rouse physicians, Dr. Prutting urges hospital pathologists to educate their colleagues at weekly "organ recitals" for comparison of diagnoses and autopsy findings. This still might not increase the number of autopsies substantially, for in most states, if death occurs in a hospital or is not "suspicious," an autopsy is illegal without consent of the next of kin. Dr. Prutting suggests that "archaic state laws" should be revised so that consent is not required...
...steel production, has slipped to 25%. Like the rest of the industry, the company has been hurt in recent years by Japanese and European imports, competition from other materials, and belated modernization. As its five spanking-new basic-oxygen furnaces (three more are being built) and its ultramodern continuous-casting operations attest, the company is finally starting to meet the situation headon...
Banned in France by Charles de Gaulle and officially ignored by the U.S. Government, which it seeks to indict, the "International War Crimes Tribunal" of British Philosopher Bertrand Russell finally convened in Stockholm last week. In the ultramodern Folkets Hus (People's House) amphitheater, Jean-Paul Sartre, long a Communist crony, called together a sullen séance of left-wing conjurors who had reached their verdict long before the trial started. Had not Russell already said, after all, that the U.S. was clearly guilty of war crimes? Nevertheless, Sartre started off the session-Russell was too frail...
Even when aging structures are replaced by ultramodern schools, minority groups continue to complain. Last fall, the school board formally opened the all-new, air-conditioned Intermediate School 201 in East Harlem, which featured a low teacher-student ratio and special tutorial help. Outraged that it was not fully integrated, Negro neighborhood leaders ordered a boycott, kept it closed for five days, demanded that the board provide an all-Negro teaching staff. Since then, unruly students have reflected their parents' pique by disrupting classes, committing wanton acts of vandalism. This month, the embattled white principal, Stanley R. Lisser, quit...