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...minute drive home in time for dinner. He had turned down a $750,000 congressional appropriation for an official residence as unseemly in view of Viet Nam, so finally last week, "with the advice and counsel" of Wife Muriel, Hubert splurged $89,000 on a six-room co-op apartment in downtown Washington. "We just weren't able to see enough of each other," beamed Humphrey, obviously tickled at the mere nine-minute drive from his Capitol office...
...Co-Op Sentencing. The Detroit court has also proved its enlightenment in one of the law's darkest areas: the wildly disparate sentences that different judges hand out for the same offense (TIME, Dec. 31, 1965). Chief Judge Theodore Levin organized "a sentencing council" five years ago. Made up of three judges and three probation officers, the council meets weekly to review every trial judge's forthcoming sentences. Each judge proposes his sentence, and the others suggest increases or decreases or shifts in emphasis. No judge is required to accept any of the advice. But all act together...
...university rather than a commuter university," Hester now has 1,600 staff members and 5,000 students living near the main campus in Greenwich Village. For additional faculty and student residences, two towering apartment buildings by Architect I. M. Pei are nearly finished (a third will be a commercial co-op). N.Y.U. is more than halfway through a $100 million fund drive, has hired Architects Philip Johnson and Richard Foster to unify the Village campus by face lifting old buildings and designing new ones...
...catch-all of married students, commuters living at home or using a bed in Wigg during the week, the Co-op people, and others who have returned from a year off to an apartment, Dudley offers as interesting a conglomeration of warm bodies as you will find in the College...
Intersettlement conferences induced agonies of self-consciousness among delegates attuned to the lonely life. When stage fright paralyzed the first Eskimo speaker at a meeting in Frobisher Bay, Donald Snowden, the government man, eased his chair close to block the view of the crowd. "Tell me about the co-op at the George River," he said gently, "and forget about the other people here." Slowly, with the help of men like Snowden, the Eskimos developed the tools they needed: self-assurance, a sense of achievement, pride. "We built this hall to last forever!" said Willi Imudlik of the substantial wooden...