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...here to originate, to stimulate new ideas and programs, and not just to adjudicate arguments. You've got to do things differently or else you're not improving them." Up at 6 a.m., and in the office at 7:10 six days a week, he puts in chock-full twelve-hour days, moves fast...
...straight 700's on her Scholastic Aptitude and English Achievement Tests she ranks in the top tenth of her high school or prep school class; principal and teachers alike detect 'no' flaw in her brains, character, and personality; her interviewer finds her alert and eager, chock-full of intellectual curiosity. By objective standards, she will profit immensely from and contribute greatly to any college in the country. But will she get into Radcliffe? Not necessarily, for an average of 1,000 equally well qualified girls have applied for the last three years--and Radcliffe has space for only...
...Union Square, Masters discount house, and Ohrbach's ("copies of haute couture"}-and how to get by adequately on $12 to $13 a day. It suggests that tourists eat as Americans do-at drugstores, Howard Johnson's ("excellent soup of mussels,'' i.e., clam chowder), Chock Full O' Nuts ("that super-American institution''), and a hectic Broadway cafeteria named Hector's. The Budget-Baedeker adds that tourists need not worry, no matter how unprepossessing the restaurant, since "food is handled everywhere under conditions of strictest hygiene...
...nothing here," began Jackie Gleason, "except the orchestra and myself." It was to have been the second telecast of his new CBS panel show, You're in the Picture, but the studio was stripped to the brick walls. After sipping from a coffee cup ("a new coffee: Chock-Full-o'-Booze"), Gleason squarely faced the camera and continued: "We have a creed tonight, and the creed is honesty . . . Last week we did a show that laid the biggest bomb-it would make the H-bomb look like a two-inch salute...
...last 350 ft. were brutal. Clawing up a narrow chimney, Kamps was blocked by a huge chock stone, an 80-ft. splinter of granite that had fallen from above and plugged the passageway. With infinite care, he inched his way to the left. After an hour's work, he drove a piton into the rock, hooked a finger through the piton's eye and leaned dizzily backwards to search for a route above. Down below, the spectators stopped talking. Somehow the climbers found a way up the face, around the chock stone, and back into the chimney again...