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...skeletons in the Eisenhower closet, no cataclysmic secret-intelligence reports. But he had discovered that even a well-informed, alert Senator and President-elect has no conception of the responsibilities of the U.S. presidency. Shortly after April 12. 1945. Harry Truman said that he felt as if a load of hay had fallen on him. Kennedy was showing something of the same load, but being Kennedy, he came out fighting. He had also discovered, like many a predecessor, that he was bound in his high ambitions by the same realities that had bound the previous Administration-including the realities...
...submarine-launched Polaris, an intermediate range (1,200 miles) solid-fueled missile. The Air Force went to work on Minuteman, designed to be fired some 6,000 miles from bases in the continental U.S. Like Polaris. Minuteman packs a half-megaton punch (only one-third of the explosive load of the fully developed, liquid-fueled Atlas and only one-fifth of the giant warhead of the liquid Titan). Like Polaris and the Army's tactical Pershing missile, Minuteman is cheaper and far simpler to handle than its liquid-fueled predecessors, requires a much smaller crew. Once built and armed...
...week clerk, and he lost his job. (Later, Walgreen officials insisted that Thompson had asked for a transfer.) The landlady ordered the Thompson family to get out of their $70-a-month apartment. Without telling anyone where they were going, John Thompson and his family took a load of wet wash off the line, packed the rest of their belongings and left New Orleans...
David Riesman assigns a final paper to his students in Soc. Sci. 136. He is able to read the papers himself, he points out, because he has a lighter teaching load than most other professors...
...winter, and spring, and one in the present summer vacation. The present framework is overly rigid, lacking the flexibility and experimentation possible under a revised system. Students could attend any of the ten-week terms; without taking a summer vacation, a student could graduate in three years. The academic load might be changed to three courses. Rescheduling and calendar shuffling certainly are not expensive, considering the manifest advantages, and have been proved worthwhile at Dartmouth and Pittsburgh...