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Whether in first aid or in climbing, ability is always vital. For instance, four men had to rush down 1000 ft. White Horse Ledge last weekend to assist in carrying to North Conway a hunter who had been shot...
...fast enough to get good propulsive efficiency, but bombers and transports (up to 600 m.p.h.) do not. Such craft will fly more efficiently with an engine whose gases shoot out of the tailpipe more slowly. Rolls-Royce Ltd. of Britain is testing such an engine, which it calls the Conway, after a river in Wales. Rolls will not give details of its construction, except that it uses the "bypass" principle...
...rapidly, that the bulk of the material was too often merely factual. However, all throught that the lectures were very well organized and therefore easy to take notes on. '55 found the background material presented in the lectures, although not absolutely essential, both interesting and helpful. Individually, Baer, Conway, and Graubard were applauded for being consistently "good" to "inspiring"; Malia was "dull and disorganized" during the fall term, with a good deal of improvement in the spring...
SECTION MEN: Conway, head section man of Social Sciences 2 before he began teaching this course, was received with enthusiasm. '55 described him as undogmatic, taking a great deal of interest in the student; all thought that he "knew his stuff." Another section man from Social Sciences 2, Baer, was praised as sympathetic, fair, very competent, interested in his students. A Social Sciences 1 man, Graubard, was an "extremely capable teacher," interested both in the course and in the student, and quite helpful in explaining the more difficult material. Malia was described as competent, though more so in the spring...
...Though most physicians agree that alcohol in moderation has some medicinal uses, a group of them who disagree strongly met last week at the College of Medical Evangelists (run by Seventh-Day Adventists) in Loma Linda, Calif. They applauded Chicago's Physiologist Andrew Conway Ivy (no Adventist but a Methodist) when he berated alcohol in any form as a "habit-forming . . . and dangerous drug," which, used to excess, "is degrading to human reason and dignity...