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Keeping this in mind, one is reimpressed with the need to open wider the doors of higher education. Only as long as we educate ourselves and our children in as broad a manner as possible are we assured that a "Mao revolution" will not sweep over us, driving whatever man has accomplished of worth into oblivion...
...publication. Written in brisk English, it examines such diverse material as mental hospitals, college sororities, and flying-saucer watchers. It was founded by Alvin W. Gouldner, 46, professor of sociology at St. Louis' Washington University, who was anxious to convey the findings of the social sciences to a wider public. Financed by the university, the magazine, which sells for 75?, has reached a circulation of 21,000; in November, it will convert from a bimonthly to a monthly...
...took Darrell Tarver, a 28-year-old Air Force veteran and senior at San Francisco State College, to bring the joys of San Gregorio to a wider public. With a group of friends, he formed the "Committee for Free Beaches," circularized the campuses of San Francisco and Berkeley, and soon more than 500 nudists each Sunday were wending their way to San Gregorio. "The greatest beach in the world," said one stark-naked Foothill Junior College student, happily surveying the scene. "This is the best incentive I have to stay slim," cried a Botticellian Berkeley coed as she raced into...
Edinburgh may have more class and Salzburg more tradition, but no festival has a longer season or a larger attendance, or offers a wider variety of music than the public concerts this summer in New York City's Central Park. The programs run from Memorial Day to mid-September, have so far drawn 400,000 people-including a record 80,000 at a single New York Philharmonic performance-who have heard jazz, band music, folk-rock, opera, orchestral music, and even a Dutch street organ huffing Strauss waltzes. None of this activity absolutely guarantees that the park will...
Reston also suggests that the Sunday papers run an "Issue of the Month" feature, which could lend a wider perspective to the major current problems. He feels that, in general, we are so concerned with the events at hand that we fail to look ahead or behind for trends in the news which could provide clues to the best possible foreign policy...