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...major factor in the decline of provincialism is the great postwar population growth and its impact on education. Ivy League colleges, which once comfortably filled their rosters with native sons and sons of native sons, now take a large proportion of their students from across the U.S. Conversely, the new competitive scramble for places has driven many Easterners to colleges their parents had never heard of. There has also been a concurrent upgrading of university standards across the country. Stanford and Chicago, Antioch and Duke are the second choice of many an Ivy Leaguer's son. And Westerners...
...seems, has seriously attempted to measure the impact of the John F. Kennedy Memorial on Cambridge. When completed in the early '70's, the Library complex will attract thousands of tourists to the City -- that much is known. But equally important for Cambridge, the Library's presence will drastically affect local commercial patterns and push real estate values skyward...
Raul Prebisch, Secretary-General of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, will discuss "The Impact of Technological Progress on Developing Countries" at 4:30 p.m. today in Littauer Auditorium...
...little as 10 million years-a brief interlude in the solar system's 4½-billion-year history-Triton could begin its final plunge toward Neptune's surface. Only one event could prevent the terrible impact, says McCord: a phenomenon that may have occurred before in the solar system. Neptune's gravity could break Triton into little pieces as it draws near, turning the satellite into a set of Saturnlike rings...
...English Ford, have as standard items in their '67s some of the features that their U.S. cousins have-including padded dashboards and emergency flasher lights. The Europeans, too, are offering disc brakes, recessed knobs and fixtures, both front and rear safety-belt anchorages, plus such equipment as impact-absorbing bodies (France's Renault and Britain's Rover 2000) and built-in roll bars (Sweden's Volvo). Nonetheless, to judge from the reactions of the crowds that visited the Paris auto show last week, speed and styling were far more important than safety. Among the new models...