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Pioneering Chance. In his seven years, Patty has nearly tripled enrollment, doubled the faculty, added $7,000,000 worth of new buildings. More important, the university has really begun serving Alaska. It rolls out useful pamphlets, from "How to Cook Moosemeat" to "Hints for Wilderness Wives." Its four community colleges...
Last week Olivetti further tightened its control of Underwood. The Olivetti-dominated Underwood board unanimously approved a plan for Underwood to trade more than $30 million worth of its common stock (1,200,000 shares) in exchange for Olivetti's U.S. subsidiary, Olivetti Corp. of America (1959 sales: $15...
Is the Supreme Court of the U.S. overworked? By many an outsider's accounting, it is woefully burdened with an ever-mounting case load. But last week a veteran insider, Associate Justice William O. Douglas, offered a dissenting opinion. Speaking at the Cornell University Law School, Douglas said: "I...
Big & Small. Victor Butterfield has an exciting alternative: Wesleyan's new "College Plan," this year's shrewdest innovation in independent study. After World War II, Wesleyan elected to stay small-and get better. It stiffened courses, doubled the faculty, lured lively outside lecturers. But "a kind of diminishing...
But what happens when the plan ends next year? To match Rockefeller's annual $100,000 means another 26% tax boost, and last week Morrilton was trying to decide whether to hold its gains. In the Rockefeller era, the 2,000-student district has closed rural schools, upgraded graduation...