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Their avowed ambition is to shake up nearly every hoary tradition of Britain's 23 other universities. "There has never been anything like this in Britain," gloats John S. Fulton, vice chancellor (president) at one of the seven, the University of Sussex. "This is rightly called an explosion. Things will never be the same again." From Cape Wrath to Land's End, Britons are avid to explode. "We are in a mess about our education," says Sir Charles Snow. "There is too little of it. It is too narrow both in spread and concept." Under fire...
Heard all over Europe now is talk of "rationalization": a German-born euphemism for the coming shake-out of slow-footed companies in the face of stepped-up competition and automation. Few Common Market leaders believe that Western Europe really needs its two dozen automakers-and fewer still think that so many will be around in ten years' time. Germany's Erhard, Europe's leading proponent of free markets, believes that a certain number of bankruptcies are a healthy inevitability. During 1963's first half, the number of bankruptcy proceedings in Germany increased...
...Name. French kings longed to possess Languedoc. Innocent III loathed it as the center of the strange Cathar religion, the last great Christian heresy (before the Reformation) to shake the power of Rome. Laying siege to Béziers, the French came in God's name, seeking heretics. But once inside, they slaughtered until the red crosses on their white tunics were lost in blood; in 51 hours, they put to death the city's entire population...
...there is no chance that the censure motion will be carried. But Nehru is plainly worried over the rising opposition on both the right and the left and over the by-election trend away from the party in what were once considered impregnable Congress constituencies. He has promised to shake up his government and to demand the resignation of some Cabinet ministers so that they can work full time on organizational duties to revitalize the party. Nehru's plan is scorned by C. Rajagopalachari, 84, leader of India's small, dynamic, free-enterprising Swantantra Party. "Theatricals...
...coonskin cap on his head, pointed to the tail and said, "A coon may have rings around his tail, but this coon will never have a ring through his nose." He beat the Crump machine, and more important than the ridiculous cap was Kefauver's decision to shake at least 500 hands a day during that campaign. It became the Keefs patented technique, worked so well that such less folksy types as Adlai Stevenson and John F. Kennedy later found themselves forced to clutch hundreds of sweaty hands in their efforts to outdo...