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CAPPADOCIA LIES IN the center of the Anatolian peninsula on a plateau bounded by Ankara, the Turkish capital, Kayseri, the one-time capital of Cappadocia, and Konya, home of the thirteenth century mystic Mevlani and his whirling dervishes. I came to Cappadocia by bus. The Turks probably have the best buses in the world--cheap, abundant, luxurious (plush seats, stewards, T.V., etc.). And fast, Perhaps too fast--Turkey has the highest per-vehicle accident rate in the world...
...Harvard College Fund expects today to reach this year's goal for alumni giving of $5.25 million--a 10 per cent rise over a plateau at which the fund has remained for the past four years, the director of the Fund said yesterday...
...wilderness of wind-carved rock, southern Utah's desolate Kaiparowits* Plateau is one of the most unspoiled places in the U.S. Now it seems likely to stay that way. For nearly 14 years a consortium of Western power companies has been seeking-over objections by environmentalists-to build a huge coal-fired plant on the plateau. Last week its campaign failed when two of the firms-Southern California Edison and San Diego Gas & Electric-informed Interior Secretary Thomas Kleppe that they were dropping, for the time being, their plans to build the plant...
...make-up of Harvard University determines the underlying push of these fundraising efforts. Not only are few programs free from the financial squeeze, but Peterson is now beginning to claim that if Harvard cannot "get off the plateau" and significantly increase its sources of funding, then the "golden era of Harvard College when the University could always afford to offer substantial scholarships could be nearing its end." "Harvard is the place of pre-eminent excellence," Peterson believes, and it is the fundraising done on a year by year basis that makes the University go. Without momentum, if we just...
Thus when Pusey moved into Mass Hall, he recognized that fundraising would be a major factor in his administration. Pusey was convinced that American higher education had to get on a higher financial plateau if it was ever to satisfy burgeoning educational needs and provide the scholarships to make Harvard a national university...