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...vocational training will be discarded from the undergraduate curriculum; corporate employers will supply that in a modern version of the apprentice system. Not only will most U.S. students spend a year abroad, but their home campuses will become "as international in flavor as were the medieval universities of the 13th century...
...13th Century Palazzo. Ensconced last week in Ferragamo's headquarters in a 13th century palazzo, Fiamma was busily preparing her new fall line, which she plans to bring to New York early next month. Although she promises "something new and revolutionary in heels," the fall collection is sure to have the distinctive Ferragamo touch, which means that the shoes will be smart, plain-lined and, except for a few styles, made by hand. Says Fiamma: "Simply designed shoes are the hardest to make, but they sell best and always look stylish...
...largely prevented white men from owning land, the enterprise of black traders and businessmen flourished, based on exports of palm oil and cocoa. Four years before independence, drillers discovered deep pools of oil in the Niger Delta?a strike that within ten years made Nigeria the world's 13th largest oil producer. Nature itself, it seemed, was favoring self-rule...
...hardly be measured on the same scale. French higher education, reports TIME Correspondent Judson Gooding, is an ordeal of body and spirit that has changed little over the centuries. It is still almost as harshly competitive an environment as it was in the 13th century, when Robert de Sorbon, founder of the Sorbonne, compared examinations in his college to the Last Judgment, and contended that the men who graded them were "much more severe than the judges in heaven." Today the long drawn-out trial is compounded of inadequate facilities, rigid rules, distant administrators, dogmatic and unapproachable professors. Trapped...
...real significance may only be that new life has been breathed into the 13th Amendment and its accompanying Reconstruction laws, and that the court has enunciated once again the ultimate illegality of racial prejudice. That old law, insisted Justice Stewart, means that Negroes have "the freedom to buy whatever a white man can buy, to live wherever a white man can live. If Congress cannot say that being a free man means at least this much," then ending slavery implied "a promise that the nation cannot keep...