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...educators looked earnestly for ways to batten down the hatches against the long blow. Should they accelerate courses in order to cram as many students into their programs as possible? That, said Yale's President A. Whitney Griswold, would only produce "an all-round lowering of standards and cheapening of products." Most college presidents agreed. What about outright Government subsidies? "We'd rather go around in rags," cried President V. Raymond Edman of Wheaton (111.) College-and most educators agreed with that...
McGuire's jet planes are always ready; their engines need no warming up. The crews are waiting, too, close to the waiting planes. It takes them only minutes to jump into their gear, clap on their helmets, cram themselves into the cockpits and lower the plastic canopies. The engines whine, shoot a fine mist of kerosene from their tail pipes, then a burst of flame that shrinks to a faint blue cone...
...clothes had been taken care of. Somehow, into two trunks and five suitcases the Auriols had managed to cram two full-dress suits, 30 dresses, two morning coats, a dinner jacket, three business suits (blue and dark grey) and some of those fiendish French shirts that button up the back. Although both of the Auriols are homebodies, they like elegance at official dinners. Three weeks ago crates of choice wine, silver and Sevres china were shipped off to the French embassy in Washington for the dinners which the Auriols will give there...
...addition o the scholastic aptitude test, most colleges require three. Instead of writing essays, the student must now answer short questions, designed to test his ability to think as well as remember. Unlike the older essays, they are questions no teacher can anticipate, and no student can ever cram for.* Some 80,000 youngsters will be puzzling their heads over them in this year's college boards...
...Load the family buggy down with all the loaded guns you can cram between the legs of the guys in the back seat. Be careful that all safeties...