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Indeed, these syllabi seem to presume an unholy connection between intellectual curiosity and cosmetic presentation. "The syllabi are like ads." said one first-year. And Dang H. Nguyen '97 interrupted his perusal of the Science B29 syllabus to observe that "the setup in the Science Center is glitzy, show-offish...
...despite what some see as an overemphasis on presentation, syllabi cannot lie. One student examining the Science B29 syllabus muttered to a companion, "P-sets!" and promptly turned away...
DIED. Robert A. Lewis, 65, co-pilot of the B-29 Enola Gay on its August 1945 mission to drop the atom bomb over Hiroshima; of a heart attack; in Smithfield, Va. A test pilot of the then new B29, he was chosen because he was known to be cool under stress, though watching the blast he said, "My God, what have we done!" Lewis kept a private record of the flight, which he later sold for $37,000. "If I live a hundred years," he wrote, "I'll never quite get these few minutes out of my mind...
...spurred creation of the first B-17 Flying Fortress in 1935. By the war's end 12,731 Flying Fortresses had been built for the Allies and had dropped more than 640,000 tons of bombs on Europe alone. Its sister ship, the larger, more powerful B29, which entered the war in 1944, delivered 96% of all the bombs dropped on Japan...
...Power (Sun. 6:30 p.m., CBS). "Superfort," history of the B29...