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Glenn, of course, is a national hero, and he takes the responsibility of the role modestly but seriously. "The flight did create a lot of attention, particularly among young people," he notes, quietly, "and this hero business does amount to something." It was 30 percent amusing, 30 percent saddening, and 40 percent embarrassing to watch middle-aged adults flocking around a reluctant but obliging "John: and asking him for his autograph "for my son who is going to be an astronaut." (The prize must go to the distinguished foreign professor who handing him the pad, confided gruffly, "Frankly...
...Bunting pointed out that while 57 percent of the male employees in the AEC have college degrees, only seven percent of the females do. "It's not easy for the Commission to promote women to high positions, no matter how eager it may be to do so," she said...
...Masters filled 70 per cent of their spaces with their choices, and the last 30 percent were assigned from a pool, in order to guarantee established quotas in certain categories...
Freshman received the acceptances, which concluded a complicated six-week selection process, on Saturday morning. According to Dean Watson, 79 percent of the class, about the same number as last year, were admitted to one of their three choices. Sixty-one per cent will enter their first-choice House in September; slightly fewer did last year...
David K. Campbell '66 and Philip K. Hamilton '67, the HUC representatives from Adams House, are the only council members opposed to the proposal. They a recent HUC poll in which 64 percent of the students polled answered "no" the question "Do you favor the use of computers for House assignments?" In recommending the use of a computer, they maintain, the council is going against "a clear student mandate...