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...Middies have strong contenders for first place in six other events. In the 600, Jay Prout has registered a 1:11.7 clocking, equaled only by Army captain Hal Jenkins. Cadet Rance Farrell and Princeton junior Terry O'Keeffe are a fraction of a second slower...
...letter to the Daily Princetonian, three disillusioned Duke males cited "the facts: Females having the required intellectual aptitudes to compete successfully in your classrooms will not exactly measure up to the dreams you entertain while reading Playboy." The number of girls admitted to Princeton would necessarily be only a fraction of the male enrollment, they pointed out, so competition for their favors would make the males feel as though they were "trying to get into a free exhibit at the New York World's Fair...
...currencies, not only the dollar, have already been devalued in terms of all goods-except gold. Every world currency is worth only a fraction of its goods value of 1933. How can one be surprised that the supply of gold has not kept pace with the expansion of trade if its price has not been allowed to keep pace with rising prices? It is not, therefore, a question of further devaluing the already devalued dollar, but of increasing the price of gold. Such an increase would obviously be worldwide, leaving the relation between currencies unchanged...
Poison for Toads. The reactor itself was completely gone, its graphite moderator and several hundred pounds of uranium fuel turned to vapor by temperatures above 8,000°F., roughly the same as the surface of the sun. For a fraction of a second before it evaporated, the reactor had generated millions of times as much energy as Hoover...
...events and characters killed for lack of space, of people and relationships underdeveloped for lack of time is present in this Phoenix Theater presentation of the Tolstoy classic, but it has an evocative life that refuses to be smothered. Thanks to Ellis Rabb's inventive direction, a substantial fraction of the surge, scope and thematic intention of the novel comes over the footlights...