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...average pupils would have a lighter work load, with many vocational courses and the slow group would study remedial reading, shop courses, and actual work experience...
...himself, walk with one crutch. The four weeks over, the graft had taken on the foot. Barron cut it loose, and Kelsey gave the order: "Unlock it." The patient did. His arm, despite its month's fixation, was fully flexible and painless: he could immediately work a cigarette lighter with the fingers of his left hand...
...being built by Ingalls Shipbuilding Corp. at Pascagoula, Miss. The Sharp company also is designing the first U.S. atomic passenger and cargo ship, the N.S. Savannah, for launching in 1960. The Government hopes that lessons learned in building the Savannah will make the power plant of the atomic tanker lighter and cheaper than that of the merchantman. While the 22,500-ton tanker will not be economically competitive with a conventional ship, experts reckon that a nuclear tanker of 85,000 to 100.000 tons would be commercially feasible...
...morning last week, a 14-year-old Korean boy named Kim Choon II was nabbed by a guard inside the Eighth Army's aircraft maintenance center at Ascom City, 15 miles west of Seoul. He had broken into noncommissioned officers' quarters, pocketed a traveling clock, cigarette lighter, flashlight, two PX ration books, $6 worth of scrip. He was frog-marched to the guardroom, where a group of U.S. officers and enlisted men, irked by 20 burglaries in six weeks, decided to teach Kim a lesson...
...Explorer itself was a special kind of reality. It was smaller and lighter than the Sputniks (30.80 lbs. v. Sputnik I's 184 lbs., Sputnik II's 1,120 lbs.). But its mere appearance in orbit only 84 days after Defense Secretary Neil McElroy's order to launch proved beyond doubt that the U.S., had it made the sensible policy decisions, could have launched the first satellite a year before as the Army urged (see below)-or 119 days before...