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...terminals function as video catalogs, offering indices by author, title and subject. Unlike card catalogs, the terminals respond to incomplete titles and names...
...COLOSSEUM BANQUET and Function Room, where Ronald Reagan brought his presidential campaign last month, is a curious restaurant. Squatting in the middle of a glass-strewn parking lot overlooking a smelter, the Colosseum is a little bit of Italy in West Springfield, Mass. After all, there is the Toga Room. And the Julius Room, and the Caeser Room. And the place is curved, in stucco appreciation of the real thing. And there's marble in the bathrooms, except it's peeling near the sinks, where the water has soaked off the backing...
Hundreds of American missions boards--organizations that finance and supervise missionary work in this country and abroad--vie for the services of young people like Rozzell and Rose. Part of the function of conferences like the Urbanas is to link students with these boards, which then help the students choose the program best suited to their interests and talents. Before students are sent to Nigeria or Borneo, they often participate in one of the many missionary training programs sponsered by the International Fellowship. Schloss Mittersill, a castle in Austria, is the Fellowship's training headquarters, where students from six continents...
...grim zeal of many of the most talented students today, eager to do well in high school in order to do well in college in order to do well in law school and, presumably, in later life...reduces professors to functionaries; their knowledge is less important than their certifying function...the best students don't consider academic careers; indeed they tend to think their teachers weren't very bright to have decided against medical school. Their doubts only exacerbate the professors' self-doubts...
...casually and habitually "on the dole"--as many do. We want to see to it that the needy have an adequate standard of medical care, but who is to say that the long waiting lines observed in the public clinics of many countries do not perform a quite useful function in restricting the beneficiaries of a free service to people who are really poor and really...