Word: filles
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Gone are seniors Frank Ripley (number one), Bob Inman (four), and Captain Sandy Walker (seven), flock of rising juniors and sophomore but a Dick Appleby will fill...
...replace the present ritual of "April Chaos"--the complicated process of bartering and raiding by which Masters fill their quotas--Von Stade suggests a more peaceful procedure: an "anonymous" committee would relieve the Masters of their selection duties. Freshmen would still be able to apply in roommate groups, but they would express no House choice. Left essentially unchanged would be the intricate formula that restricts each House to a certain number of Group One students, preppies, jocks, and other personality types. The new committee would attempt to create the same rough balance in each House that the Masters now labor...
Even if its defenders admit that the present system is time-consuming. After freshmen submit their applications, secretaries add a number of background facts to the forms and then send them along to the Masters of the students' first choice Houses. Masters have six days to fill 70 per cent of their vacancies, although they must stay within the stricter requirement of the distribution formula...
Like his father, Edgar rushes in where the timid fear to tread, following the company's slogan-"Find a need, and fill it." Optimism is the cornerstone of the Kaiser philosophy, and Edgar argues with folksy persuasion that the world's needs are bound to rise so fast that he would be foolish not to try to meet them...
...engineers and technicians in white hard hats begin to spin the spidery wires and connect the delicate electronic mechanisms that will control the bird. Capsule specialists poise their instrument-packed pod atop the rocket to check it out. If all goes well, fuel specialists attach the plumbing that will fill the projectile's maw with explosive cargoes of liquid oxygen and kerosene, or intractable liquid hydrogen...