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...longevity: "There is a great lesson in this for all of us. But I'm damned if I know what it is." Said New York's quicktempered Daily News, which employs Sullivan as a Broadway columnist: "The celebration was cattily clawed over and damned with faint praise by an alleged television and radio critic calling himself Crosby or Crosley or something...
...world's biggest scientific instrument, and probably its biggest precision mechanism, is the giant radiotelescope at Jodrell Bank, just south of Manchester, England. Demonstrated to the press last week, it is almost finished and will go into action this summer, reaching into the depths of the universe for faint whispers of radio information...
Smooth Glide. After three tense hours there was still one faint hope: a landing that would give the dangling paratrooper half a chance to survive the high-speed impact with the ground. Ingeniously the Air Force ordered fire engines to spray a runway of Pope Air Force Base with slick, heavy foam. Just before the null wheels touched down, one of the crewmen cut Flugum loose. He shot along the runway back down, protected by his parachute pack, in a smooth, 100-ft. glide. Thanks to the split-second ingenuity, he was unbruised by the landing. But despite...
...Little Sense of Destiny. At N.Y.U. Heald faced a different sort of problem- a huge (35,000 students) university with six scattered campuses and only a faint sense of entity. Heald rallied the alumni for the first time, boosted their annual giving from $140,000 to $400,000 a year. He eliminated departmental duplication, persuaded students to consolidate their activities (e.g., the university had four student newspapers), raised $44.5 million, which was more than had come in in all the previous 25 years. But his real achievement was something more intangible: restoring to students, facultymen and alumni faith...
...sounded unhappy about the write-off. He said that FPC licensed the dams "on the premise that financing was going to be conventional.'' Though FPC knew that Idaho Power had applied for rapid amortization four years ago, it accepted the company's statement that there was "faint" chance of getting it, even defended the license in court on the ground that no Government money was involved. Embarrassed, Kuykendall admitted that "we made a mistake." It was a sizable...