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...thing none of them questioned was the wisdom of commuter classrooms. These are ambitious men with full-time jobs and full-sized families who would find it difficult to obtain an M.B.A. by the usual route. "Actually," said Ed Gradel of the Pfizer Corp., "I started on my master's degree ten years ago and never completed it. I mean, now I've got a wife and four kids. This is a much better idea than getting home at 10:30 at night or going to school all day Saturday...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Learning on Wheels | 11/1/1971 | See Source »

Added the navigator, Lieut. Colonel George Gradel: "Everything felt wrong. The aircraft had gone into a dive. Once that happened, it happened fast. Then I heard a voice which just said, 'Bail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: Bone Crusher | 12/29/1958 | See Source »

...left leg, belted his face and body into a raw, black and blue mess. Then his chute opened. Pilot Smith ejected next, took the same pummeling as his body shot into the steely air, but his chute never opened and he fell, crushed, to the ground. Navigator Gradel's blast-out broke his arms and legs, his right shoulder, lashed his face and knocked him unconscious. He woke to see his parachute above him, passed out again on the way down. The needle-nosed $8,000,000 Hustler screamed down, tore a 30-ft. crater in the ground, cracked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: Bone Crusher | 12/29/1958 | See Source »

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