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From the patio of his five-bedroom, colonial-style house east of Urbana, Ohio, Farmer-Lawyer Vance Brand can look 2¶ miles over pasture and corn land to a white silo that marks the boundary of his 1,700-acre farm. But for the last few years he has had little time to enjoy the view, has been intent on a much broader horizon. As a director of the Export-Import Bank since 1954, Vance Brand, 52, has traveled more than a quarter of a million miles at the job of overseeing longterm, low-interest loans for the world...
...farm boy who has made good in world finance is a practical, urbane and polished negotiator who knows many of the world's capitals as well as he knows Urbana (pop. 11,000) and Washington, where his father was a Congressman for eight years. As a boy he worked at odd jobs on Capitol Hill, later got degrees in both arts and law from George Washington University, married the daughter of North Carolina's Democratic Representative Homer Lyon...
...eight: Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, N.H.; Browne and Nichols School, Cambridge, Mass.; Taunton (Mass.) High School; Bronx High School of Science, New York City; The Hill School, Pottstown, Pa.; The George School, Bucks County, Pa.; Radnor High School, Wayne, Pa.; University High School, Urbana...
...Nobody knows how ultrasound achieves most of its effects. But its use in neurology at Iowa City has a solid base in years of painstaking research. Physicist William Justin Fry, 39, worked with underwater sound for the Navy during World War II, went to the University of Illinois at Urbana and carried on ultrasound work with funds from the Office of Naval Research. In the early postwar years most ultrasound generators produced only a crude, unfocused beam. Fry built a two-story laboratory with equipment reminiscent of science-fiction illustrations, gradually refined his complex apparatus so that he could focus...
...University also announced the award of five fellowships for travel abroad last night. Peter N. Stearns '57 of Eliot House and Urbana, Ill., has received a Henry Russell Shaw Travelling Fellowship. Four men received Sheldon Travelling Fellowships: David E. Bertelson '57 of Lowell House and Salt Lake City, Utah; Robert S. Freeman '57 of Dunster House and Needham Heights, Mass.; Ronald Gold '57 of Lowell House and Wilmington, Del.; and George S. Reynolds '57 of Dunster House and Marblehead, Mass...