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...Nation's Engine. In a land that lacks industrial resources, Hebrew Uni versity is the engine of the nation. "Our survival depends on the quality of our brains," says President Eliahu Elath, a noted Orientalist and former Israeli Ambassador to Washington and Lon don. "This university must help pre serve that quality or else we are lost." Students and faculty have a sense of direction that most U.S. colleges would find awesome. Professors publish or perish on the theory, bluntly stated by Humanities Dean Joshua Prawer, that "where there is a choice between a good scholar or a good...
Every day for more than two months, five soldiers in the black-and-khaki uni form of the Pathet Lao stood guard at a large mud hut in a Red-held village near the Plain of Jars. Inside, Lieut. Charles Klusmann, 30, whose Navy RF-8A jet had been shot down on a photo-reconnaissance mission June 6, paced the 20 feet from wall to wall exactly 264 times a day - just enough to make the mile he had allotted himself as exercise. Although he limped painfully on a badly wrenched knee, War Prisoner Klusmann was in remarkably good spirits...
...uni versally popular appointment. Low Churchman Fisher himself preferred another man, and one British publisher summed up: "He went to a second-rate public school, got a second at university, was an indifferent Archbishop of York, and therefore he'll make a perfect Canterbury." Today, many of his critics admit that Ramsey has grown into his job, and could well retire as the best-loved Archbishop of Canterbury of the 20th century. Says the provost of one English cathedral: "He's a deeply committed...
Hiding the Nostrils. One of the most articulate enemies of this wallpaper architecture is the chairman of Yale Uni versity's Department of Architecture, Paul Rudolph, 44. "New York is full of cosmetic architecture," he says, "glass-sheathed, cellophane-like buildings which hide the actual structure and all the nostrils of the building-the ventilating systems. Packaging architecture in boxes is the main characteristic of most postwar building, and now there's a cry for honesty rather than cosmetics. I don't believe we can build large cities out of various-sized packages which are buildings...
...Brandeis. the nation's first Jewish-sponsored nonsectarian liberal arts uni versity, has in only 14 years created a major U.S. campus in Waltham, Mass. Now it needs a war chest to lure top scholars, notably in its weak departments of economics, philosophy, comparative languages. The library of 300,000 volumes needs strengthening, as does research in humanities. The new grant, says President Abram Sachar. "does for our economic stability what Phi Beta Kappa accreditation did for our academic stature...