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Bubbling & Coaxing. The holidays at the White House got under way on Christmas Eve, in the East Room, when Ike and Mamie greeted 516 members of the staff, and presented each with a handsome folder containing a color reproduction of one of Ike's latest paintings: a portrait of Abraham Lincoln, copied from an 1863 photograph. Early Christmas morning, the President, with his wife and mother-in-law, left the gaily decked White House, drove through the silent, deserted streets of Washington, and flew off to Georgia for a family reunion. At Fort Benning they stopped briefly...
...past we've had the admissions folder and the College Board results, but we haven't been able to find out what kind of person an applicant is. We think we can get some insight from these essays," Bender said...
...cent" rule. The administrators would calculate 15 per cent of the not family income as a basic expected contribution. From this expected amount they would subtract $100 for each child in public school, and $200 for each one in private school or college. But the dean reading the folder was also expected to use his own judgment in evaluating family assets. The rule might have worked, had one person read all the applications. But with several readers all making recommendations, there was a difference of style. Because of this, both the individual reader and the committee gradually moved their decision...
...Tell 'em I said to outfit you and charge it to Mr. Higgins." Last week George Higgins totted up his score, found that he had seen 75 boys & girls earn degrees at dozens of campuses from Annapolis to the University of Michigan. Each of the students has a folder in the Pontiac office, filled with clips and letters ("my heartwarming mementos"). Once in a great while, when a student seems to be taking things too easy at school, Higgins summons him home for a stern lecture ("You've got to scratch. You're not riding a gravy...
...most carefully guarded files in the Littauer Building is a folder of eighty odd sketches of members of the Economics Department by Professor Wassily Leontief. The secretaries of the building regard the collection jealously as theirs by right of salvage; after each conference one of them Leontief's memorandum pad, date it, and add it to the series. "Not many professors know about it," says the current holder. "But some of them sneak in once in a while to see themselves...