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...fairness, a correction must be made in reference to the Rocket Powered Bell XIA. Although it was indeed the Bell XIA which flew both to 1,650 m.p.h. and 90,000 ft., it was not I, but Major Charles ("Chuck") Yeager, my friend of long standing, who attained this speed (and incidentally, nearly gave his life), while accomplishing always hazardous high-speed research during 1953. Following his flights, and with the assistance of Colonel Jack Ridley, the NACA, and many others, it then became my privilege to be the first man to attain 90,000 ft. as the culmination...
...graduate of a state university with a degree in Urban Land Economics--and what could be more specialized--I feel I must be within the group mentioned. The goal desired by Dean Griswold, that of "cultured" lawyers, is a laudable one, but the means by which he hopes to attain this goal is at least questionable from three standpoints...
...standing by their own party record as the opposition, particularly in 1952. The general objectives of American foreign policy are what they have been ever since leadership of the free world was thrust upon this country." And opposition attacks upon the manner in which the Administration seeks to attain these objectives are, said Krock, "historic, legitimate and inevitable in the American political system...
...wards, at the telephone switchboard, or in the mail service, they are always acquiring what she calls "hospital sensitivity"--an ability to do the right thing at the right time under both emergency and ordinary conditions. It is this "sensitivity" which the program's pre-meds intently strive to attain...
Martin Luther's commentary on Psalm 2:11 ("Serve the Lord with fear, and rejoice with trembling") revealed the distance the father of the Reformation had come -and the end he hoped to attain. "As a young man I hated this verse for I did not hear with pleasure that God had to be feared . . . I did not know that fear had to be mixed with joy or hope . . . We who are Christians are not entirely fearful or entirely happy. Joy is joined with fear, hope with dread, laughter with tears, so that we may believe that we shall...