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...Three new campuses must be built, on their way to 27,500 students apiece. Near the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, imaginative Director Roger Revelle has 14,000 acres for a cluster of small residential "universities" grouped around each subject, is building a faculty from the top down this year, with an advance guard of Nobel Prizewinner Harold Urey and twelve other members of the National Academy of Sciences. Up the coast is the 1,000-acre Orange County site, donated by the vast Irvine Ranch. Somewhere south of San Francisco in the state's North Central...
...many people, from John Foster Dulles to Nikita Khrushchev, have been inclined to assume that neutralism was the next thing to Communism. In fact, the neutralists are united only by a negative sentiment: Help us, but keep hands off. Rather than a reliable "bloc," the neutralist group is a cluster of ambitious and often impulsive leaders, most of them mutually jealous, many of them open rivals. Few show any practiced moderation in diplomatic maneuver, and most balk at accepting leadership from any self-appointed tutor. Tito dreams of leading the whole neutralist world, but is suspect to Africans and Asians...
...Deal than his reputation as a ''Kansas Coolidge" and the vituperative 1936 presidential campaign would suggest. In one telling vignette in a Topeka chicken restaurant, a bellicose Hoover barks rapid boos at a Roosevelt radio speech, and an embarrassed Landon hustles him away from the cluster of newsmen. When the supposedly bitter rivals met at a preelection Governors' conference in Des Moines. relations between Landon and F.D.R. were so harmonious that Kansas' Republican Senator Arthur Capper observed sourly: "I fully expected one of the candidates to withdraw...
Kittinger landed unhurt, lay helpless on his back until helicopters brought a team to rescue him. "I'm very glad to be back among you," he grinned. Kittinger will receive an oakleaf cluster for his Distinguished Service Cross...
...Green Freshmen? After passages of spacious solemnity, the horns break suddenly into a capering phrase from Camptown Races; in the midst of the frenzied final movement, doleful woodwinds sound forth with Old Black Joe. Even the ending is typically Ivesian: the entire orchestra comes in with a raucous, jeering cluster of chords...