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...Goofing Off? More freedom is something that some students cannot handle. After a period of free study, one Pomona student reported: "Well, I've learned one thing: I don't have any self-discipline." A Stanford student objects to dropping grades, contends: "There are enough students of little competence-why encourage them?" A faculty adviser at Lake Forest, Chemist William B. Martin, worries about "superficial" study by unguided students, who might read The Canterbury Tales but not really understand it. There is no doubt, says Allegheny English Professor Henry Pommer, that a few students "goof off" when...
...wonder very few people take advantage of the program when all other fields of concentration are excluded? Did Dean Monro describe the junior-year-abroad program for credit as "liberal," or are your readers supposed to assume the "liberal" program does not give credit or did someone goof? Charles R. Ajaist...
...Goof on the Ground. In other technical areas, Gemini had at least one negative aspect. Instead of touching down last week within sight of the carrier Lake Champlain as planned, the astronauts fell short by 103 miles. Investigators at the Manned Spaceflight Center in Houston soon traced the trouble: human error on the ground, not in space. One of the controllers at Houston had fed incorrect information to the big computer system on the ground, which in turn relayed the wrong re-entry calculations to the shoe-box-sized computer aboard Gemini 5. Said Howard W. Tindall Jr., mission-planning...
...Fund Raiser Matthew H. McCloskey, for example, had been accused of deliberately overpaying Maryland Insurance Man Don B. Reynolds $35,000 for writing a performance bond on the $20 million District of Columbia Stadium that McCloskey's firm was building. McCloskey claimed that it was only a bookkeeping goof, but Reynolds testified that $25,000 of the money was illegally channeled into the Democrats' 1960 presidential campaign fund through Baker. Generously, the committee found McCloskey's testimony "candid and convincing," dismissed Reynolds' as "devious and inconsistent...
What went wrong last month when the Gemini capsule Molly Brown splashed into the Atlantic 60 miles short of its scheduled landing spot? Last week NASA's Dr. Homer Dotts firmly dispelled all rumors of a possible goof by Astronauts Gus Grissom and John Young. According to Dr. Dotts, the capsule did not develop as much lift during re-entry as had been predicted from preflight wind-tunnel tests. With less gliding ability, the capsule plunged earthward on a steep trajectory that aimed her short of the target. By the time Grissom had calculated the trajectory on his computer...