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...first of these was the Advanced Placement program, which permitted a student who had done college-level work in three subjects to enter as a sophomore, and to skip two of his required General Education courses. This led, in turn, to a well-founded suspicion that someone in a position of authority thought that General Education courses were more or less interchangeable with other courses and also thought that three college-level courses of any sort could be equated in some way with two General Education courses. The second confusing innovation was the Freshman Seminar program--for suddenly the General...
...much U.S. aid was involved could expose the Kennedy administration to much unnecessary criticism. Thus when reports indicated that 75 per cent of the Indian army was stationed in the punjab on the Pakistani border, away from the Chinese front, Galbraith convinced the Indian generals that a different troop placement was in order...
Finally, after Sherman had collected expenses from Radio Corp. of America for three separate interviews at four different plants, RCA got suspicious and notified postal inspectors. Later an engineering placement service sent one of Sherman's resumes to Radiation Inc. of Melbourne, Fla., a firm that Sherman had listed as a "former employer." Radiation officials checked with the federal postal authorities, and Sherman's jig was up. Arrested in Orlando, Sherman pleaded guilty to three counts of using the mails to defraud and now faces a maximum sentence of 15 years. Sighs Sherman: "I'm glad...
Useless Pumping. In transposition, placement of the heart's outflow pipes is reversed. The aorta, the great artery designed to supply oxygenated blood to the entire body, arises from the right lower chamber (ventricle) of the heart instead of from the left. As a result, it carries used blood back into circulation. The pulmonary artery, designed to carry used blood to the lungs for oxygenation, arises from the left ventricle instead of from the right; as a result, oxygen-enriched blood is pumped uselessly back and forth between lungs and heart...
...daily and 1,000,000 Sunday could not have survived. After all, it was the second biggest daily in the U.S., topped only by Manhattan's other morning tabloid, the New York Daily News (1,915,000 daily, 2,000,000 Sunday). But in that very placement-the News first, the Mirror a laggard second-lay part of the reason for the Mirror's death. For all of its 39 years the Mirror sought to copy the front runner, an ambition it was totally unequipped to achieve...