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Deputy Premier Teng Hsiao-p'ing flew home to Peking last week after completing a dramatic ten-day tour of Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore and Burma. Meanwhile, in Canton, a British-made Hovercraft from Hong Kong skimmed into the harbor with a load of 63 tourists, inaugurating the first regularly scheduled passenger sea service from the British colony to China since the Communists took power three decades ago. In California, six Chinese scholars arrived at Stanford University, the first cadre of 700 students and researchers that Peking intends to send to the U.S. within the next twelve months...
...setting for the services is strikingly beautiful and fitting. Built by Ralph Adams Cram in the mid 1930s, the chapel is one of his simplest and most moving. Its load-bearing arches recall the earliest Christian basilicas. The polished marble of the High Altar is set off from walls of rough-hewn granite, by vague natural light from two Connick studio stained glass windows above...
...Kroll and some 100 other Anglican women hoping to be ordained, the most frustrating news was left unsaid: by church mandate, the issue cannot be formally reconsidered until a new synod convenes in 1980?and even then, with a crushing load of other business to settle, the Anglican leaders may not consent to hear the women's case until 1983 or later...
...that there is too much reliance on government. Says he: "Each job in industry is now supported by an average $1,000 to $1,200 per year in government funds. In shipbuilding the figure is $8,000 to $10,000. It is obvious that we have to reduce this load on the state budget considerably...
...assistant professor at Harvard, most candidates are eager to accept a position here. "Harvard is an incredibly attractive environment, offering a superior library, intellectual climate and students," one junior faculty member in the Department of Germanic Languages and Literature says. Harvard junior faculty members receive a fairly light teaching load, a sabbatical to do research for a year at half salary or six months with full pay, and an opportunity to exploit the University's astounding research resources. In theory, then, most junior faculty should be able to view their years at Harvard as exciting and rewarding...