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...bleak Idaho desert, a wayfaring man, if wayfarers were permitted, might stumble on what looks like a scene of mis placed industrialism. A great cloud of steam rises from a pond of hot water, and near by stands a forbidding building of blank-walled concrete. It looks like a powerhouse, but no smoke comes from the six short stacks sticking out of its roof (they are emergency ventilators). The building, nevertheless, is a powerhouse-the first nuclear powerhouse of the Atomic...
...statement designed to express public opinion should emphasize areas of agreement and minimize any points obviously open to dispute. Because the Council did not do this, a statement that could have carried some weight was rendered inaccurate and consequently ineffectual. As it is, the Council has not only possibly mis-represented student opinion, but violated one of its own policies as well. For its only purpose in creating the committee was to improve its ability to express student opinion...
Princeton scouts at the game Saturday saw a terrible mis-match and got a look at every player on the Crimson squad. Local football fans saw a mis-match in the offing and chose...
Molly's Offensive. As Foreign Minister, Molotov has made his mistakes, some of them thumping big ones. He misread Tito, lost the airlift battle of Berlin, mis judged U.S. reaction to the invasion of South Korea. Above all, he and his "fellow Politburocrats allowed the nakedness of Communist aggression to alert the West to rearm. To undo that "error" is now the principal external target of Russia's peace offensive...
...Conants generously allowed the Navy to administrate its V-12 school from the house. The Colonial-style home was immediately transformed into a "ship." A twenty-four hour watch was stood, and classes for midshipmen were held over the same mahogany table where the Overseers dined in years past. Mis-behaving scamen were assigned to scrub the "deck" and polish the "brightwork"--in this case, oak floors and gold mirrors. Consequently, when the admiral moved out, the ship was little worse for the wear and tear. The Conants were astonished to discover that even the bottles in the wine-cellar...