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...year to its namesake university in Germany. At Ohio's Western College for Women, launched originally as a "western" Mt. Holyoke College, students focus each year on a different area of the world, spend the summer touring it. Western also specializes in Afro-Asian students, currently has the first Sudanese woman to study...
...They get a B.A. in three years, stay on a fourth year for deeper study before moving on to such graduate schools as Harvard and Chicago. This year, when the Educational Testing Service gave exams to college seniors at its 222 affiliates, Shimer College's bright seniors won first place in natural sciences and humanities, tied for first place in social sciences...
When he started on the nine-month filming project that took him from Belle Glade, Fla. to Chenango County, N.Y., Lowe found that "at first, the workers were embarrassed. Then one man spoke up: 'Are you with us or against us?' I said, 'I'm with you,' and they let us take their pictures." The pictures he got included that of an unbowed 29-year-old Negro woman, a migrant laborer since she was eight, now the mother of 14 children but still working for $1 per ten-hour day. She was one of several...
...words. Called Winston Churchill-The Valiant Years, its 26 half-hour segments will draw material from all six volumes of Church ill's World War II memoirs, using film clips made on both sides of battle to provide-if all episodes prove as excellent as the first-a graphic and unforgettable text in modern history...
Skillfully selected and edited, the series' opener traced both Churchill and his country through the years that bridged the wars, from bursting shells among the trenches of 1918 to the first aerial bombardments of 1940. One fine vignette followed another: Churchill sitting in a wheelchair in Manhattan, bandages on his nose and forehead, after an automobile nearly ended his life on Fifth Avenue in 1931; Hitler barking Sieg, Sieg, in antiphony with the full-throated Heils of massed Germans; the odd and sinister British-Nazi faction of Sir Oswald Mosley goose-stepping in Hyde Park; the garden walls hand...