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...only is the stage no substitute for a well-proportioned prize-fight ring, but it is frightening to think that Cappucino and Camembert cheese may replace beer and hot dogs. At 8:35 a girl pointed to the folder on my table and asked, "Could I look at this?" I passed her the playbill, she studied it in confusion for a while, and finally returned it, saying, "Sorry, I thought it was the menu...
...hour; an entire battle group (1,800 men) can be on its way in four. Every morning, every man on alert assumes he will be headed for combat before nightfall. He gets his bedding ready to be turned in. Private cars are parked in a special lot. A folder containing each man's personal papers-including his will-is kept up to date...
...past, every members of the Committee on Admissions read each candidate's folder. Next year, however, the Committee (currently Mrs. Phillips Farrington, acting Director; and Associate Director; Deans Eliott, Williston, and Sherman; the Director of Financial Aid; and President Bunting) will divide up the applications into small groups, each to be assessed by one member. The change is designed to save time; it also suggests that the Committee wonders whether recent applications have been read with sufficient care...
...give out the medians as such, the application of a slide rule to the percentages provided producers the following "educated guesses": SAT verbal--695, SAT math--660, English Achievement--725. Nevertheless, test scores weigh heavily enough that the Committee places them at the back of each applicant's folder--where the reader will not see them until she has already formed a partial picture of the candidate in question. Moreover, the Committee is currently trying to arrive at a formula evaluating SAT scores, achievement tests, and rank in secondary school class to project a freshman average for each applicant. When...
...morning of his flight, the airplane commander passwords his way through a series of guards until he arrives at intelligence headquarters. There he picks up his Combat Mission Folder, which is really a box containing his charts and maps and the arming devices for the bombs ("blivits") that are secured in the airplane's bomb bay. Together, pilot and intelligence officer unlock the orange box, take an inventory, lock it up again. The pilot signs for it, and the box is hauled to his plane, where it is chained to a post in the cockpit...