Word: pre
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Gantries & Sentries. Named for the late Air Force Chief of Staff (1948-53) General Hoyt S. Vandenberg, the new base is abuilding on 64,000 eucalyptus-strewn acres that in World War II and Korea were Army's Camp Cooke. Tattered bayonet targets, reminders of pre-pushbutton war, stand in a quiet tract, while 3,900 civilians and 3,500 airmen work busily around a futuristic maze: three 135-ft. Atlas gantries on nearly completed pads, three more Atlas pads still being poured, eight Thor pads, 8,000-ft. bases for electronic tracking, a hangar-shaped missile-assembly building...
...redirecting their growth. Students take new ideas seriously only when their college sub-culture makes the old outlook inapproprate. This means that the whole college atmosphere must be distincly "un-American," either because the scholars infiltrate undergraduate life (as in some small colleges), or because the student body is pre-selected to deviate from national norms (as at Harvard...
...better look more carefully both at training and at leadership. The "leader" to whom this homily refers is obviously not just a politician or a crusader or a general. He fits in any of a million executive, technical, or professional slots for which a college degree is pre-requisite. The leader trained in the college is not just a decision maker; he is anyone who sits on top of a prestige pyramid as reward for taking intellectual, social, or economic responsibility...
...changes will be made this' year, and Trottenberg doubted that any "extensive changes" would be made. He noted, for example, that if one of the pre-Harkness-grant Houses wanted showers installed, this would require the expense of a new plumbing system, but he did not rule out the suggestion on that basis...
Adams: Student Council, Treasurer, President; Crimson Key Society; Debate Council; Junior Usher; Union Committee; Harvard Fortnightly, Editor; Judge Club, Vice President; Pre-Law Society, Vice President...