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...natural athlete. Her daddy taught her how to swim in two weeks. She climbed trees like a monkey and hung by her knees from the branches. She rode horseback and played golf. Skating was her own idea. From her father, who despite his invalid body worked 18 to 20 hours a day in the Department of National Defense, she learned tenacity. In the barnlike Minto Club, not far from her house, she practiced her first figures;-learning to do eights, brackets and counters ; to skate on the inside or outside edge of the runners (never on the flat...
17th Floor for Growing. On the roof, tenants will be able to run races around a 120-meter track, swim in a pool, lounge in a solarium. Children can do most of their growing up on the 17th floor: romp in a nursery, play games in a playground, train in a gymnasium, or go to classes in a schoolroom. On the seventh floor, parents can shop, eat at the restaurant or drugstore, visit the barber or clinic. "Relieved of the two great burdens of heavy housework and the care of children," Le Corbusier explains, "the family will live a happy...
...where Christmas is likely to be one of the hottest days of summer, Correspondent William Johnson cabled that he had been listening to his children practicing Christmas carols and "they don't sound quite right in hot weather." He figured on eating the turkey cold and taking a swim after dinner. For the traditional Christmas eggnog, the William Whites, in Rio de Janeiro, are substituting mint juleps. Our Bogotá correspondent, Jerry Hannifin, says he is going to spend the day alligator hunting. In Mexico City, Bureau Chief John Stanton had no worries beyond a slight apprehension over...
This is not to say that advisory indifference effects all undergraduates equally. The adviser's sink or swim attitude goes to work on a group that is severely split before it ever arrives in Cambridge. The need of a Massachusetts prop school graduate for a capable adviser will not parallel the need of a student from a small town in Kansas. The prep school product is likely to have a friend or a brother already at Harvard with whom he can consult on academic and other activities. The midwesterner will probably be entering a new and alien society, without personal...
...After a while Dr. Sasaki douses that light too. The fish move on, in a growing throng, like tipplers shunted from bar to bar by a series of closing hours. At last the only remaining light is the fatally attractive beam that beckons from inside the net. The fish swim in and Dr. Sasaki hauls up his net. In the cold light of dawn, the light-minded fish are headed for broiling (yaki zakana...