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Asked to name a Great Idea, Annapolis' middies are wont to say "Beat Army." But the academy has lately undergone a bit of brainlifting. Courses have been tripled to catch up with missile-age gear and theory; the 4,100 midshipmen can major in twelve fields; the new academic dean and almost half the faculty are civilians. Middies no longer even march to class in formation...
Into Competition. In those days Pacific lived in the shadow of President Tully C. Knoles, who was wont to dress up like Buffalo Bill, with his goatee jutting, and lead parades aboard a white stallion. But when Knoles died in 1959, the school found in his longtime assistant a distinctly different leader. Eying California's booming public citadels of learning, President Robert E. Burns saw that private Pacific was out of the competition...
Still to be dispensed with are some old customs. One is riots, called "Row-bottoms" after Joseph Rowbottom ('12), whose roommate was allegedly wont to start trouble by bellowing drunkenly from the street, "Rowbottom! Rowbottom!" The student guide still warns girls to "seek immediate shelter" when Rowbottoms strike; they must lock doors, douse lights and hide until the official all clear. Also looking increasingly archaic is the discriminatory system of fraternities, eleven of them Jewish and 25 gentile...
Unlike the N.E.A., the union has a good civil rights record and takes in only teachers. Nor is it wont to equate teachers with doctors or lawyers as professionals who can pick their clients and set their fees. It sees teachers as overworked employees who deserve "a single salary schedule" starting at $6,000 and rising to $14,000-still the millennium in most places. To that end, President Megel steers what he calls "a progressive, dynamic course, aimed at closer affiliation with the A.F.L.-C.I.O." As he sees it, "salary is still the unmistakable measurement of the desirability...
Healthy, wealthy, submersible Department Store Scion Peter R. Gimbel, 35, is wont to prowl around the ocean floor (he dived to the sunken Andrea Doria in 1956, again in 1957) when he is not busy with his career as an investment banker. Now rising above all that, young Gimbel joined a National Geographic Society expedition bound for the Peruvian Andes, early next month will parachute into the remote upper reaches (9,000-14,000 ft.) of the Vilcabamba range-an unmapped area never penetrated by outsiders and considered a possible site of early Inca civilization. Accompanying Gimbel on the three...