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...work, Dedijer has displayed what C. Wright Mills called "the sociological imagination"--a quality of mind which dramatically links individual and social reality. Born in a land of many cultures and ideologies, he combines within himself a series of paradoxical styles of life. Faced with pressures which would have torn most men apart, Dedijer played his roles like a master historical gambler, shifting with the social context yet holding some basic values constant. The cost of this freedom was, for ten years, disgrace and exile. The reward has been personal vitality and historical peace of mind...
...private program called Project Amigos. Both were started three years ago, when Mrs. Mabel Naylor Danalis, a San Diego Welfare Department employee who had previously worked among the poor in Greece and Chiang Kai-shek's China, heard of ten wartime dormitory buildings that were about to be torn down outside of San Diego...
...University of Alberta has 9,400 students in tall buildings on its bulldozer-torn Edmonton campus and is building another campus in Calgary with an extra $2,000,000 thrown in for the nearby Banff School of Fine Arts. The University of British Columbia, which with 15,500 students in Vancouver is the biggest and the best in the West, has given birth to the newly independent University of Victoria in the province's garden-filled capital. In Burnaby, near Vancouver, the innovating Simon Fraser University will open next fall on a $15 million, 1,168-acre campus-just...
...thinks of the poor hog breeder torn between love of his work and a yen for European travel? Who cares about the speleologist yearning to visit foreign lands but loath to mix with ordinary tourists who never plumbed a cave? Travel agents, that's who. What's more, they're doing something about it. This year Academy Travel Ltd. will assemble an exclusive and hardy band of spelunkers in London, collect $195 a head, and lead them off on a somewhat sunless 15-day crawl through the caves of Rumania. In New York, Lindblad Travel...
...incoming freshmen can be accommodated in the brick dormitories, Mrs. Stimpson said that girls in the metropolitan Boston area may have to commute temporarily. She added, however, that this year's system of "freshman houses" will not be continued. "We lost off-campus space last year when buildings were torn down for the library," she said, "but now that we've acquired new housing, there should be no problem...