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...need for more facilities is a pressing challenge, Dean Ford said. Although this is a period of active building, it is "just a drop in the bucket compared to what the University needs to keep up." He cited the need for more medium-sized lecture halls as well as expanded undergraduate housing...
...work in summer.' " Williams College Chaplain John Eusden describes the phenomenon as "a new, near-missionary zeal - very contagious. The students are extremely conscious of shortened distances, and the whole world is on their minds. They have a great sense of being a drop in the bucket, but they have a tremendous desire to use their talents, however meager. This is recklessness in the best sense...
Both crewmen and superiors are forever saying things to Kennedy that 20 years later they probably wish they had not. "You got a brain like a seed pearl," splutters one sailor after Lieut, (j.g.) Kennedy has accidentally dumped a bucket of dirty water over him. And the running gag all through PT 109 is oh-boy-think-of-talking-like-that-to-the-President-of-the-U.S. But nothing upsets Kennedy's dedication to duty, and sometimes he sounds as if he were rehearsing an inaugural address at some happier future time. "Think these men will...
...Detroit has happily succumbed to one trend: the growing U.S. love of sports cars. Noticing the eagerness of customers for making the family car look as much like a sports car as possible with such extras as bucket seats and floor gearshifts, the automakers are speeding ahead with more straightforward sports cars...
...most of the load is still being carried by the pioneers of corporate aid, such as Ford, U.S. Steel, General Motors. And even $200 million was a relative drop in the bucket. Last year...