Word: fitness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...main difference between this and the Army's program, Jones said, is that an Air Force student will not be restricted to any particular courses as an Army student is. He may select, he explained, any course which will fit in with his field of concentration and still help his Air Force training. In addition, there may be a new course developed which is suited to AFROTC work...
...Beauty and the Beast" is a story about a hairy Havana high school senior who doesn't fit into the group, goes to bed with a prostitute, and finds that the socially acceptable fairy queen of the high school is neither off-beat nor a prostitute. The author, Robert Grindell, is another smooth writer, but his plot lacks both unity and message. He handles sex well, but his characters are not up to the experience, shadowy sketches whom he seems only to have met, never to have known. The hero's hairiness is, like much of the characterization, inadequate...
...high-speed bail-out problem: a detachable cockpit. It would form the whole nose of the airplane and would contain all the expensive instruments and electronic gadgets, which are nice to salvage along with the pilot. It would also be standardized, so that the same cockpit would fit the bodies of many different airplanes...
First, somebody forgot to assign a man to raise the U.S. flag at Ebbets Field (an improvement over 1913, when the Dodgers couldn't even find a flag). Then, in a fit of haste, the Brooklyns ran their World Championship emblem up the pole above the Stars & Stripes...
...added that Cambridge up to now was not living up to the "serious problem of urban renewal," and that more effort should be made to make the Harvard area "a fit place for scholars, young and old, as well as students, married and unmarried...