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...James H. Smith Jr., on the eve of an abrupt retirement to private life,*refrained from specific criticism of the other services, nonetheless ruffled Air Force feathers by assigning to the Navy a far more important strategic-bombing role than the Air Force is willing to admit. ¶ In Palo Alto, Calif., Brigadier General Carl Hutton, boss of the Army's fledgling aviation service, argued that the Army must have its own greatly strengthened air arm, sneered at the idea that the Air Force has any "divine right to a monopoly on flying machines just because they fly," derided...
...Palo Alto, Calif., police arrested Herman Dale Reid, 31, suspected of having a hand in nine embezzlement cases, as he stood staring admiringly at his own "Wanted" circular in the downtown post office...
Definitions of liberal education abound--they range from the cultivation of gentlemanly tastes to the development of a certain frame of mind. All of them, however, emphasize the mature consideration of ideas. As a tool for developing this mature consideration, whether at Oxford or in Palo Alto, nothing has proven more fruitful than the writing of papers. In this light, it is disgraceful that a student of the humanities or the social sciences can go through a complete college year without writing more than two or three course papers...
Rhinelander's appointment to the post, which corresponds on the undergraduate level to that of Dean Bundy here, still requires official approval by Stanford's governing body. Stanford President John E. W. Sterling, reached in Palo Alto yesterday, said he "could not yet confirm" the appointment but disclosed that Rhinelander has visited Stanford within the past month...
...wishing to belittle Mr. Curtice's way of life, where "platoons of subordinates jump when he twitches," we would like to point out that we have a subordinate who jumps and twitches with no provocation. RUSSELL E. WILLIAMS Palo Alto, Calif...