Word: expressions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Service terminal at suburban Tokyo's Tachikawa Airport, largest military airbase in Japan. MATS clerks straightened, for Colonel Platt was notable local brass: he was commanding officer of the MATS terminal. Off on a 14-day leave in Hawaii, Platt called for booking-six seats-on the Pacific Express, a 41-passenger C-118 due out within minutes on a U.S.-bound milk...
...clerk pointed out that the flight was already overbooked. Colonel Platt knew-but the clerk did not-that two inbound planes from Korea were delayed and that at least eight passengers on them were going to miss their connections with the Pacific Express. Irritably, Platt changed his request to an order. Panicky, the MATS men took an easy out, bumped seven emergency-furlough passengers-one lieutenant and six enlisted men-off the Pacific Express passenger list to make way for the colonel, his family and luggage. When some of the victims tried to plead their emergency problems-a dead...
Magic Number. As the Pacific Express roared down the runway into the night, six of the bounced airmen clustered around a Red Cross worker in Colonel Platt's terminal. At Red Cross suggestion, A/1C Cole Y. Bell, trying to make it to an injured brother's bedside at Fort Campbell, Ky., tried to telephone the Fifth Air Force inspector general's office, with no luck. At that point a veteran sergeant suggested: "Why don't you call General Burns? If anyone can help you, he can. I used to serve under...
Part of the Cliffies' compulsiveness to study comes from the 5:1 Harvard Radcliffe ratio. "This is a man's university," Morris says, "and the only way girls can establish themselves then to overcome the insecurity of their position, is by doing all the course work thoroughly." To express superiority-or perhaps to achieve superiority-the 'Cliffie will often study harder than her Harvard counterpart. Militant feminism, in Cambridge, finds expression in Rank Lists and Honors. Girls, in this predominantly masculine community, can never attain equality except by competitive methods provided by competitive methods provided by the classroom...
Many Cliffies express the desire for equality, however, in a less erudite manner. Often members of any Harvard class spend time aiding their poor damsels in the struggle through the academic sloughs. "And then the ungrateful curse reward us good Samaritans by raising the curve and getting better grades than we do," one Harvard student explained. In the eyes of many Harvard men, at least half the 'Cliffe students would never make Dean's List without willing and able assistance...