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...interests of developing time-saving devices for professors, so that additional hours might be freed for publishing or perishing as the case may be; and in response to the growing pressures on the American educational jungle for standardization; the CRIMSON suggests that the following be adopted as the Early November Hour Exam in all courses...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Our Exam | 11/8/1963 | See Source »

...reported that only 100 Vietnamese lost their lives in the 17 hours of battle. As the afternoon wore on, one rebel bomber missed his target with a rocket that exploded on the building where a group of U.S. marines live; a hole blasted in the building merely freed one marine's pet boa constrictor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Viet Nam: Revolution in the Afternoon | 11/8/1963 | See Source »

Released by the Japanese after two months, Minh duly reported back to the French-only to be jailed for his insurrection. He and several other prisoners were put in a crowded, reeking cell with neither light nor toilet, ankle-deep in human excrement. Minh "almost went crazy," was freed after three months, thanks to a fellow prisoner who was released before Minh and intervened on his behalf with the French commandant. The friend: Nguyen Ngoc Tho, Diem's Vice President and the military junta's choice last week for Premier. Although Minh is universally deemed anti-Communist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Viet Nam: Revolution in the Afternoon | 11/8/1963 | See Source »

This fall came another innovation: the idea-patterned frankly and gratefully on Yale's "Scholars of the House"-that a few bright first classmen (seniors) should be freed to study largely on their own. Called "Trident Scholars," they are picked from the scholastic top 10%, get sprung from routine classes (military duties continue) while pursuing independent research projects. As the academy's unbarnacled superintendent, Rear Admiral Charles C. Kirkpatrick, puts it, the aim is to "give a bright boy his head...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Service Academies: First-Class First Classmen | 11/8/1963 | See Source »

Four young men have sweated out the comforts of the county jail in Americus, Ga., ever since August, when they were arrested during civil rights demonstrations. They cannot be freed on bail-they have been charged with "inciting an insurrection," a crime that, in Georgia at least, is punishable by death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Statutes: Civil Rights Counterattack | 11/1/1963 | See Source »

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