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...vitally needed a chance to escape purely professional concerns and purely nationalistic attitudes. His idea bore fruit in the foundation of the Seminar. Each summer since 1951 the program has brought these young leaders to Harvard (all expenses paid), where for eight weeks they both study and experience the unfamiliar reality of American life...
People in unfamiliar surroundings are often able to reach higher intellectual levels than those in a static environment, Edwin E. Moise, James Bryant Professor of Education, said yesterday. Prof. Moise accredited this tendency to the need to adjust to changed conditions...
Moise, addressing 200 persons at the Summer School's Thursday afternoon lecture, cited young children, who must make new discoveries and cope with language during the first years of their lives, as examples of people making progress in unfamiliar environments...
...Twilight Zone (CBS, 9-10 p.m.).* Mystery of an American astronaut who loses contact with ground control for six hours while in orbit and finds things strangely unfamiliar when he returns. Repeat...
...with a shy smile on his permanently suntanned face. He escorts a pretty girl-usually a new one each time-to the center of the ballroom floor. Then, to the slow, stately strains of the violins, they point their feet, bow, turn about and sweep elegantly into an unfamiliar step. The dance is the courtly Varsoviana, brought to America from the palaces of Europe by Mexico's Emperor Maximilian; the man who puts his foot out so skillfully is Hotelman Conrad Nicholson Hilton, who calls the tune for the $293 million Hilton Hotel chain. Hilton has adopted the obscure...