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Schlesinger said that over 100 candidates had been given at least some consideration, with the list being pared to four or five before the final selection.
Torture & Triumph. The seven Astronauts of Project Mercury were winnowed out by the most searching tests man could devise and machine could execute. Last winter, just after new Space Administrator T. Keith Glennan ordered the space shoot, the Air Force, Navy and Marines selected the nation's no likeliest...
When Congress voted a $6 million appropriation for long-term, low-interest student loans under the National Defense Education Act, it failed to provide a satisfactory method of allocation. Under the law, if requests from institutions of higher learning exceed the appropriation (a foregone conclusion), the requests within each state...
This method worked--worked so well that by Open House Night, only 20 sophomores were on the class president's list as potential trouble spots. The Committee was active here again, patrolling Prospect Street, wearing white armbands for identification and equipped with walkie-talkies ("Hello, Tommy, this is Phil--do...
Feiffer calls himself a "serious humorist," speaks of "writing" a cartoon because of the supremacy of the words over the drawing. Using pared sticks (the kind that restaurants send out to stir coffee) as pens, he usually gets his drawing right the first try. But he has rewritten captions as...