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...Committee has about 20 members, divided half and half between Admissions Office staff and administrative officials, like Deans Monro and von Stade on the one hand and teaching faculty members like Eric A. Havelock, professor of Greek and Latin, and Edward M. Purcell, Gerhard Gade University Professor and a Nobel prize winner, on the other...
According to F. Skiddy von Stade Jr., Dean of Freshmen, the new course will prevent a repetition of the problem which arose this year when 46 freshmen lacked the prerequisites for any Nat. Sci course. Every freshman who wanted one eventually found a course, said von Stade, but he noted that "even Nat Sci 4 assumes some knowledge of chemistry...
...reflective mood that has come over the 87-year-old Chancellor now that he has finally made up his mind to give up West Germany's top job. Last week he offered no objections when a caucus meeting of his Christian Democrats authorized C.D.U. Bundestag Leader Heinrich von Brentano to canvass all the factions and suggest a candidate to take over next fall and lead the party in the 1965 elections...
...observing instruments as could be squeezed in. Tests were run on every part, arguments raged. Pickering presided calmly and quietly over the melee. He commuted back and forth to NASA's Washington headquarters on the night plane, the "Red Eye," carrying reassurance in both directions. Says Dr. Wernher von Braun of Pickering's administrative style: "His most outstanding characteristic is his ability to lead that most difficult breed of men. the scientists. They can be exceptionally pigheaded. You have to give them enough rope to argue their views. If Bill tried to run a very tight show...
...become an extension of his own personality and his own unique approach to life, he must be classed as more of a jazz musician than a folk musician. Cahn sings everything with a German-Jewish accent which alienates many purists. But those who judge him in comparison with Eric Von Schmidt, Jack Elliott or Sabicas (depending on which type of music Cahn happens to be playing) miss the point of Rolf Cahn. To borrow a phrase, he's in his own bag, but that bag doesn't keep Cahn from being one of the most exciting performers in folk music...