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Based on a proposal submitted last Spring by Benjamin W. Labaree, Senior Tutor of Winthrop House, the plan calls for the replacement of the freshman proctor with the "resident adviser." Beginning next term, the 60 resident advisers will absorb the proctors' functions and advise 600 freshman. At present only 40 proctors are also advisers...
...most thankless chores in Washington. The public yawns whenever civil defense is mentioned, and Congress finds the OCDM budget a dandy place to practice economy, trimming off an average of 76% of the requested funds over the last ten years. OCDM directors of the past have sometimes seemed to absorb the public's apathy. But Frank B. Ellis, the energetic new OCDM chief, is determined to overcome the frustrations of his job, even if it means going over President Kennedy's head. Last week Ellis did just that, with a public appeal for beefing up civil defense...
...called the Hinterstois-ser. after a German climber who died there in 1936. The ice was too shallow for their ice pitoris, too deep for their rock pitons. Anchored only by their hand picks, the four were inching upwards when Kinshofer suddenly fell. Sorhehow the other three managed to absorb his shock when he hit the end of the rope. Gingerly the team passed "death bivouac," where two members of the first north wall team froze to death in 1935. The fourth night out, watching his tiny, portable barometer fall ominously, Hiebeler began to pray that the weather would hold...
Cookies, Too. Pilgrim believes that on short space jaunts the crewmen will breathe bottled oxygen. For longer voyages, a chemical recycling system that Boeing has developed looks more practical. It uses potassium or sodium super-oxide to generate oxygen and absorb CO2. Only on very long voyages, the sort that are measured in years, will closed systems using algae be the most efficient. On such space ventures, the crew may even be able to eat the excess algae (Pilgrim's daughter Vicki Leigh, 15, has made acceptable cookies of them), eliminating much of the need for toting food...
Though a firm of economic consultants, Washington's Howell & Co., studied the primitive economy and advised that it could absorb a maximum of $24 million a year, the U.S. poured in about twice that amount. As naive in business as in politics, the Laotians hardly knew how to handle their new wealth-until a few sharp Indian and Chinese traders rushed into Vientiane to show them. Favorite device: the import license. Laotians with political pull got import licenses for everything from feather dusters to nail polish to television sets-though there is no TV station in Laos. They could...