Word: robert
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Entering into retirement after almost 30 years at Columbia University, Sociologist Robert Staughton Lynd, 67, received flowers from students, expressed surprise that so many were present at his last class session. Said Lynd, who with his wife Helen in 1929 published Middletown, a classic sociological case study of U.S. community life: "I hadn't expected there would be any last class as such, but I find that there is. I had expected that I would walk out of Fayerweather Hall, down the steps, out the engine room as I always had, and on to Amsterdam Avenue and take...
...boys in more than 2,000 schools, largest number in its three-century history. "At least 95%" were qualified. Yale's Dean Howe was deeply concerned that "highly desirable people are being turned down.'' Said the University of Pennsylvania's Dean of Admissions Robert H. Pitt: "I often had real difficulty with my own conscience at night...
...Robert Andrews was bought at Sotheby's for $364,000-the highest auction price paid for an English painting since the 1920s. Geoffrey Agnew has been paying between $30,000 and $56,000 for Turners and Constables, and is happy that he has done so ("Most reasonable," he says, in view of his subsequent profits...
Heavy Blow. As soon as the FAA confirms its findings, the company will begin modifications of the Electra (including 34 awaiting delivery). It hopes to finish by year's end. Lockheed Chairman Robert Gross predicted that the modifications will cost about $25 million. There was a chance that the airlines would assume part of the cost, rather than engage in a court battle with Lockheed to determine responsibility...
...ROBERT ALAN BICKS...