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...staff of Bank Street College of Education views the nation's scholas tic trends with a certain justifiable smugness. Bank Street itself has for many years been a yeasty factor in one of U.S. education's newest preoccupations: the preschool teaching of young children. Now observing its 50th anniversary, the college suddenly finds its expertise in great demand...
Elegant & Eccentric. Last week, on the occasion of Cleveland's 50th anniversary, Lee looked like a Caesar back from the pillage of some artistic Carthage. Presiding at a candlelit banquet for 275 guests and trustees, he displayed a trophy case filled with 159 new acquisitions, valued at some $5,000,000. For sheer size, scope-and elegant rapacity -the booty was unparalleled in U.S. museum history...
...matter. Moscow's tower is already taller than the Eiffel Tower, and when it is completed a year from now to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the 1917 Revolution, it will be 1,722 ft. high, 250 ft. more than the Empire State Building. Muscovites will enjoy dining in its revolving three-story restaurant. Distant viewers will love having TV programs beamed directly from Moscow over the Urals to Vladivostok and Yakutsk. And Aeroflot pilots will be mad about it: with its antenna tips swaying 23 ft. in the wind, it will be the greatest aviation obstacle in Moscow...
...girls did threaten to jump off a Manhattan hotel roof in the Beatles' honor. But the girls were combing their hair while the crowds gathered, and it was taken as a sign of the times that they chose a 22nd-floor setback of the building and not the 50th floor. Clearly, Beatlemania has seen greater heights...
Director Alfred Hitchcock will come to Harvard July 14 to receive an honorary award from the Harvard Dramatics Club. The award also marks the opening of Hitchcock's 50th film, Tern Curtain, starring Paul Newman and Julie Andrews...