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...high academic ideals in the schools, and it helps to make the college curriculum challenging and interesting to well prepared students. Colleges and schools may find that sacrifices are necesary in order to make their contribution to the program, although as Advanced Placement is presently divided among colleges, the richest would make the largest--yet comparatively modest--contributions. They should recognize, however, that whether or not a student derives monetary benefit from the tests by his course exemptions, he is usually in no position to pay their full cost. To attempt to force him to do so would only reduce...
Last week Phillips Academy at Andover, Mass., one of the oldest and richest prep schools in the U.S. (market value of its endowment: $28 million), announced an ambitious plan for getting on with its business. The school needs $6,060,000, said West Point-educated Headmaster John M. Kemper, and of that amount some $1,000,000 has already been pledged. Biggest project in view is the construction of five dormitories for $2,620,000. Other goals: $1,150,000 for a science building and $850,000 for a creative arts center. Perhaps the most important objective...
...Heavy favorites failed to make the grade in two of the winter's richest horse races. In the $145,000 Santa Anita Handicap, C. W. Smith's Hillsdale (at 4 to 5 odds) was overtaken by Terrang in the last hundred yards, lost by half a length. In the $135,800 Flamingo Stakes at Hialeah, Christopher T. Chenery's flashy three-year-old, First Landing (17 to 20), was never a serious factor, finished third behind Bayard Sharp's Troilus...
Besides having one of the richest diets and the most varied menus on earth, Americans daily consume a haphazard assortment of an estimated 400 chemicals added to foods as preservatives, coloring agents, antioxidants, mold inhibitors, bleaches, thickeners, thinners, emulsifiers and moisteners. This week, to take both the hap and the hazard out of the addilives, a new law (signed by President Eisenhower six months ago; becomes effective. Its burden: before processors may add any chemical to food, its safety must be proved to the satisfaction of the Food & Drug Administration...
...Farm? The Smouha affair, or the Smouhaha, as London wags inevitably called it, arose over the fanciest deal struck in a lifetime of shrewd dealing (cotton, moneylending, land speculating) by one Joseph Smouha, longtime operator in the Persian Gulf, Lancashire and the Levant, and known as the richest British subject in Egypt. This was his acquisition of 700 swampy acres on Alexandria's outskirts. He got Farouk's father, Fuad I, to proclaim it "Smouha City" and, while holding about half as low-tax "farm land" for future speculative profit, turned the other half into villas...