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...seconds tightened as hundreds of eyes were fixed on the clock. Seven-fifteen (a.m.) . . . T minus 60 seconds ... 55 ... 50 ... 45 ... Said Walsh: "Helium disconnect has dropped; lox vent has closed." Then T minus one. Snapped Walsh: "Mark!" From the blockhouse came the word: "Ignition...
...rate of population increase in the United States remains the same, 3,000 physicians yearly and about twenty-five new medical schools will be needed in the next fifteen years. A suggested remedy is increasing the number of cooperative plans under which students attend two years at a regular university and proceed to more advanced schools, like Harvard...
...postwar immigrants contributed notably to Canada's prosperity and to its culture. Fifteen years younger than the national average and with a high proportion of workers, they swarmed into mines, farms, factories. Forty percent of the scientists and engineers added to Canada's working force since 1950 were foreign-born; last year's newcomers included 1,838 teachers, 635 physicians, 54,376 skilled workers. Immigrants founded one of the West Coast's major lumber companies; another immigrant developed the nation's biggest uranium mine. Foreign-born artists organized new ballet companies in Toronto and Winnipeg...
...goes for ten or fifteen minutes. Total strangers confronting total strangers, making nervous small talk with artificial poise, watching through narrow eyes for the wrong color of socks, a grammatical slip or affectation, a pun or wisecrack in questionable taste. Then...
...Gown ("The Cap"), and Cottage ("The Cheese")--among whose former members have been both F. Scott Fitzgerald and John Foster Dulles. Graduates of the most famous Eastern prep schools, the scions of stock hallowed by generations of fame and money, and other individuals who can sell themselves well in fifteen minutes or so, are nearly assured admission to one of these. To make Ivy is social apotheosis...