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...already formed a partial picture of the candidate in question. Moreover, the Committee is currently trying to arrive at a formula evaluating SAT scores, achievement tests, and rank in secondary school class to project a freshman average for each applicant. When the formula is obtained, it is plain that predicted Rank List will join the other "vital statistics" in the back of the candidate's folder...
Arsenal. The entire Plaine des Jarres is bulging with Russian armaments and swarming with Vietnamese. The Ilyu-shins, which are lined up 18 deep at Hanoi airport, drone in by the hour, bringing 45 tons of equipment a day. About once a week, a convoy of 50 Gorky trucks rolls in over primitive Route Seven from Vinh in North Viet Nam. The rebels have more than 60 Gorky trucks. 40 Soviet jeeps, about 25 command cars and six Russian armored cars. They have Kalashnikov submachine guns. Simonov carbines. Degtiarev light machine guns, ZPU antiaircraft machine guns, as well as Russian...
Past performance made the position plain in all but degree. In 1949 the hierarchy insisted on federal funds for books, buses and health aids. In 1960 it pressed for federal loans to nonpublic schools. Congress refused, and federal bills died partly because Catholics opposed them...
...room. After taking a college course in elementary French, Brother George recalls, she suddenly stopped spelling her name Leontine, replacing the i with the y that she still uses. Says a friend: "Sometimes she can be all mink and ermine, and the next minute she'll be plain old southern Mississippi." But the southern Mississippi usually pops out first. After her Met debut she encountered Metropolitan General Manager Rudolf Bing backstage. He asked how she was. "Mr. Bing," said Leontyne, "I'm havin' a ball." Later that night, at a party in her honor, a guest asked...
...commit the Fed to supporting long-term holdings, upset the market and launch a new round of inflation. But Martin, who has carved out the Fed's reputation for independence in the last decade, has no intention of letting the image be chipped away now. He has made plain he will cooperate with the Administration as long as long-term rates are moving downward anyway, but will not use the Fed's purchasing power to buck the market if the trend turns up. Its entry into the long-term market last week was cautious: it bought only...