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Inquires reaching this office incidate considerable mis-understandings about the sequence of events concerning the Radcliffe off-campus breakfast allowance. The directive setting up the plan which I described at the RGA meeting on October 20 was sent out to Radcliffe staff on Friday, October 14. Mary I. Bunting President of Radcliffe

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREAKFAST ALLOWANCE | 10/26/1966 | See Source »

Petal-like Penetrator. It's a rare mis sion that is not shot at, and a still rarer one in which the helicopter can actually land to bring an airman aboard. If the downed man is seriously disabled, the pararescue man goes down and stays with him until they can get out-which can mean as long as a day or more in enemy territory. Most often an airman is lifted out of difficult terrain by hoist. Each rescue copter has a 240-ft. cable tipped by a "forest penetrator": a 25-lb. sinker that can plunge through heavy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: That Others May Live | 7/22/1966 | See Source »

...several researchers, even if they did not think it worthwhile to start from the beginning, agreed that the secondary schools needed radical reform. Some felt that high schools trained students for college, mis-educating those who wouldn't get there. Some saw the schools hurting poorer students in more subtle ways, for example, by making it difficult for them to learn to speak and write. Others argued that no attempt was being made to win back students who, for whatever reason, lose interest in their work. All that was needed was something to bring all these researchers together. Oliver...

Author: By Robert A. Rafaky, | Title: Ed School's 'Shadow Faculty': Thirty Researchers Who Are--More or Less--Revolutionaries | 6/16/1966 | See Source »

Second baseman-Joel Markowski helped him out with a grand slam home run in the second inning -- a line shot mis-misjudged by the Springfielder. Markowski knocked in another run in the sixth on a single, after catcher Paul Saba had doubled...

Author: By Joel R. Kramer, | Title: Freshman Nine Wins, 7-6 On Wild Pick-off Attempt | 5/12/1966 | See Source »

...great deal more. Lockwood banishes his son for the unforgivable fault of getting kicked out of Princeton, his daughter gets entangled in an intricate sexual morass in London, he himself acquires one mistress too many (O'Hara tycoons always have several mistresses). His brother kills himself-and the mis tress. In the end there is no one left of the Lockwood concern but the principal person of this private religion. But the chief trouble with the Lockwood concern is that it has also be come the O'Hara obsession. And that may be what is responsible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Frustrated Pygmalion | 12/3/1965 | See Source »

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