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...Reaching upward everywhere-from new apartment buildings in once-devastated Cologne, from the hunting lodges of the Harz Mountains as well as the malty rathskellers of Bavaria-the television aerials of West Germany pull down programs with a standard of excellence unparalleled in the world. They reflect the variety of the national interest rather than its lowest common denominator-and until this month all this was achieved on a single channel operating just five hours a day. Now a second, supplementary channel has been introduced, and every night last week announcers on both channels were generously falling all over themselves...
...show, "The Case for the College," emphasized Harvard's need for unlimited wealth, conveniently limited to $82.5 million. As money flowed in, old buildings disappeared: the Mather squash courts, Cambridge tenements behind Dunster, the Radcliffe Health Center, and, most lamentably, Cronin's, fell to the wreckers. The University expanded upward, with seven-story Quincy (irreverently dubbed the "aircraft carrier by the Charles"), 12-story Leverett, the ten-story Health Center, and the proscenium of the Loeb. In addition to buildings, the Program elicited funds for new professorships, athletic fields and endowment--but could not keep tuition down. The class started...
...scale. I made a machine having a surface of 300 sq. ft. ... and it would sail downwards in any direction according to the set of the rudder . . . When any person ran forward in it with his full speed, taking advantage of a gentle breeze in front, it would bear upward so strongly as scarcely to allow him to touch the ground, and would frequently lift him up and convey him several yards together...
...club). Her parents have watched her show only two or three times during the past year, and in all that time, the TV set has been out of whack-the vertical control is broken, and Dottie, as her baby sister puts it, "keeps flipping upward." One of these days, the elder Provines keep saying, they will have to have that set fixed. Meanwhile, the girl in the red swing just flips...
Although the number of applications rose very slightly, the College has admitted 35 fewer students than last year. An unexpectedly high acceptance rate last year necessitated a sudden upward revision in class size. The Committee, therefore, has taken particular care to avoid overacceptance...