Word: middletowners
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...fleeing MIG-17 only to have a second Red fighter ambush him with blazing cannons. Scat's Sidewinder blasted the first MIG over a ridgetop, and as he wheeled for home Olds shouted over the intercom: "Nailed that bastard!" His gibs, 1st Lieut. Steve Croker, of Middletown, Del., recalls: "We were screaming back and forth at each other like a couple of excited kids...
Rebuilding a River Port. With that backing, Wesleyan can afford to try out new ideas. It is pumping $3,000,000 into a development company to help rebuild its home community of Middletown, a once busy river port with declining industries and fading neighborhoods. One project will be a model community to be built on nearby farm land, which Wesleyan hopes will make the area more attractive to recruitable professors. Wesleyan also gives about half of its students financial help in meeting the $3,350 annual cost of attending school; next fall 37 Negroes-10% of the freshman class-will...
...ample stipends (up to $15,000, plus housing) with only one vague appeal to conscience: "They are invited to participate, to an extent consistent with their plans for their own work, in the ongoing work of the university." Snow confined himself to two lectures during his one semester at Middletown. His wife, Pamela Hansford Johnson, who was also a center fellow, used the time to write a novel (Night and Silence Who Is Here?) chiding the collegiate practice of collecting big-name scholars in centers for advanced studies...
JOHN C. HOY Wesleyan University Middletown, Conn...
...knows how many such papers exist, since they appear sporadically, frequently flounder and die for lack of financial support or reader interest. Most of them are started by bright, active youngsters who are fed up with the blandness of official school papers. In Middletown, Conn., for example, High School Senior John Beatman began editing the Omelette-"It Doesn't Fry People, People Fry It"-because students have "no outlet to express any controversy." Beatman, who was once expelled for wearing a beard, collected a staff of a dozen teen-agers from three Middletown high schools with only one viewpoint...