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...Please. As he entered the courtroom last week, Georgiev gave the audience one quick glance, then grimly pressed his lips together and listened to an hour-long reading of the indictment without a change of expression. He was "politically and morally corrupted to the marrow," declared the prosecutor. Why bother to disagree? With a shrug, and in a firm, soft voice, Georgiev requested his own death sentence...
...five years." How did he feel about having kidneys from a chimpanzee? "The doctors explained I couldn't live with what I'd got. I was worried, of course-but not about the animal business. I knew it would be a monkey. It didn't bother me. All I wanted to do was to survive. I feel wonderful." Feeling that way, Davis went home for Christmas with his four children, ages 13 to 19. "I'll just sit back and wait for the mailman," he said. With a Government pension he will no longer have...
...Next Door. Some amelioration can be obtained by putting a pad of sound-deadening material under the radio or hi-fi set. "We recommend a waffle padding with a foam rubber back about two inches thick," says Austin Granat, technical consultant for Fisher Radio Corp. But few set owners bother to do anything about it unless the neighbors complain...
Even in a Volkswagen, class tells. Gurney was all the way into the first corner before he shut the door of his sedan. Only once each lap-on a particularly tricky corner-did he bother to touch his brakes. The rest of the time, his VW was flat out. "You've got to keep the revs up there and use them," he explained. The pace was enough to discourage all but the stoutest-hearted competitors. "I tried to run his kind of race," said one, "but I didn't have the nerve." At the finish, Gurney...
Along with this questioning of moral values a sophomore often begins to consider her future goals. Often these are specifically related to the changing role of women in modern life. "Am I intellectual?" and "How can I manage a family and a career?" are among the questions which may bother a thoughtful sophomore. A student who is not excited by her academic work may wonder whether differential calculus can have any relevance to the problems before...