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...NOTE: Yesterday's editorial Implied that the Deanship of Harvard's Graduate School of Education had somehow contributed to the low status of the post of Commissioner of Education. This was a typographical mishap; the editorial should have said that Dean Keppel's Harvard post has helped to make his influence felt--an influence we hope the Commissioner's office will not neutralize...
...drugs, has shown good sense in its promise to the National Institute of Health that the new rules will not hinder qualified researchers. New discoveries are made more rapidly in medicine than perhaps any other field. While it is essential that the rules be tightened to prevent another mishap like the one which produced thousands of thalidomide-deformed babies, it is equally important that legitimate, controlled testing be carried on unhampered, so that the benefits of research may quickly reach the patient...
Died. Françoise de Moriere, 29, a French girl working as a stewardess for Allegheny Airlines; in a rare and eerie aircraft mishap; near Hartford, Conn. As Allegheny's short-hop Convair approached Hartford's Bradley Field, a loose cabin door in the rear of the plane suddenly blew open; rapid decompression popped her through the opening and to her death on an open field 1,500 ft. below. "She was gone in a flash," said a passenger. "Not a cry-not a word...
That little mishap cost the taxpayers perhaps $20 million. But that is how the money goes in space. Canaveral's spacemen hope to try again before Sept. 10. After that date, Venus will have sailed through the heavens beyond the point where mere 20th century man will deem it feasible to pursue her again until...
...strongly monarchist army. "If Franco should die or suddenly fall ill," explained one Franco aide, "Munoz Grandes will be at the head of the government dignitaries waiting at the airport to greet either Don Juan or his son, Prince Juan Carlos-whichever the regime chooses as successor." Should a mishap befall Franco in the next five or six years, his successor will almost certainly be Don Juan; after that,Juan Carlos will have a chance...