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...rotating dairy crew milks the school's 70 cows, meets the other boarders at 7:30 breakfast. After tidying their rooms, the youngsters attend chapel, join the day students in regular classwork until midafternoon. Then the boarders get cracking again. The boys polish floors, mow lawns, repair buildings, haul garbage, plow the fields. Girls swarm into the boys' dormitory with mops and pails, cook dinner using produce from the school's 350-acre truck garden. After dinner: study hall, lights out by 10:30 at the latest. Saturday morning is for more work; Sunday hikes exercise those...
...problem that needs examination, then, is the deficiency of service-frequency, comfort, convenience, speed, safety, reliability and cost. Among the possibilities listed in the report: improvement of existing railroad rights-of-way that would provide line-haul running speeds of 100-150 m.p.h.; new railroad rights-of-way or "tubes" to provide speeds of perhaps 200 m.p.h.; electronically controlled auto or bus highway systems; "ground and surface effects machines'"-that is, vehicles that ride on a cushion of air over land or water; improvement of helicopter services and development of VTOL aircraft (vertical take-off-and-landing craft...
...Birchers. who hold, among other convictions, that former U.S. President Eisenhower was a "conscious" Communist "agent," regard Pegler as a major journalistic haul. "Mr. Pegler will not be restrained in any way." said American Opinion Managing Editor Scott Stanley Jr. And Columnist Pegler, who in his days of relative silence on the desert has found little better to do than dash off a piece on pugilism for Show magazine, bared his fangs in anticipation. "I'm not a member of the Birch Society," said he, "but I have seen nothing in their program or their policies to offend...
...propellants. In Rover, a small nuclear reactor will generate heat that will expand hydrogen. This, in turn, will be directed out of the rear of the rockets to provide thrust. Because the reactor and the hydrogen take up relatively little room, scientists estimate that Rover will be able to haul triple the loads of conventional rockets, could be adapted to shuttle flights between earth and moon...
...those who are still employed work only 20 to 25 hours a week. Only 40% of the nation's factories are still open; industrial production is down to 30%. The once busy waterfronts of Oran and Algiers are almost silent except when a passenger ship docks to haul another load of emigrants to France...