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...whose brother "committed suicide" while in the hands of French paratroops, but who is himself, nevertheless, a devotee of French culture, with a French wife and a passion for Paris; and Left-Winger Saad Dahlab, 38, a former merchant and a member of one of Algeria's wealthiest Moslem families...
Although he is one of the world's wealthiest men, eccentric, elusive Howard Hughes is often short of cash-usually on a grand scale. For the last six months he has been short just $340 million, the money needed to pay for jet planes ordered for his TWA. Hughes, who owns 78% of TWA stock, would have had little trouble raising the money if he had been willing to relinquish his whimful one-man control of the airline. Long accustomed to dictating his own terms, Hughes refused. Wary bankers were equally stubborn. Last week, with time running...
Holland's claim of impossible competition for talent and his assertion that admissions procedures are eliminating creative students contradict one another. If, as he claims, there is little relation between postcollegiate success and test scores, then the wealthiest colleges that, he says, rely upon these figures could hardly be denying the poorer schools potentially eminent graduates. Admissions procedures that eliminate the creative student are hardly unique to this group of universities, but Holland has chosen to level these unrelated charges solely against them. Over-emphasis on preparation is a prevalent evil, but it has nothing to do with concentration...
Holland and his associate, Laura Kent, say that one-third of all college scholarship money is controlled by 50 prestige colleges, which attract the nation's wealthiest students. Their "need" was made clear in a 1957 report that only 18% of Harvard's scholarship holders came from families with incomes below $4,000. Worse, such colleges' "reliance on test scores and high school grades has led to a relatively narrow kind of talent-searching-the search for good grade-getters." And grade-giving usually favors the conformist, says Holland, not the independent creator, who may have...
Married. Princess Diane of France, 20, sixth of eleven children of the Count of Paris, Bourbon pretender to the French throne; and Duke Carl, 23, the Duke of Württemberg's second son, scion of one of Europe's oldest (dating back to 1032) and wealthiest (among the holdings: 45 farms, twelve vineyards, forests totaling 45,000 acres) royal clans; in Altshausen Castle near Saulgau, Germany...