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...United States very few men leave home for prop school as early as the English do. Most of our men need some kind of orientation to a life away from home. Yale has a wonderful thing in the Freshman year. It has been much more successful than the report seems to indicate. Freshmen need orientation in the habits of living, the values of the institution, the nature of knowledge and the importance of study. It has been doing exceptionally well, and while it can be improved, it should not be abolished as the committee suggests. This one excellent thing that...
...enemy planes. He got his wings in World War II, but, as he says, "when the war ended, I had seen one Japanese aircraft- one they showed us back in flight-training days." In Korea, enemy aircraft seemed as far away as ever: Bordelon was assigned to a prop-driven F-4U Corsair- no match for a MIG-15-and set about the essential but dull task of attacking Communist supply lines...
...Aviatrix Jacqueline Cochran whooshed to another pair of speed records over Edwards Air Force Base, Calif. After clocking 590.273 m.p.h. around a 12-pylon, 500-kilometer course and 670 m.p.h. in a straight 15-kilometer dash, Jacqueline pronounced the Sabre a safer plane, and easier to fly, than the prop-driven fighters of World...
Borge uses one prop-his piano-and as he says, "The Steinway people have asked me to announce that this is a Baldwin." Borge may begin by playing "Happy Birthday" as Bach, Brahms, or Berlin would have written it, or he may ask for requests. In the latter case, he will make appropriate substitutions for the numbers he can not play: the lady who asked for "Doggie in the Window" had to be content with "Trees...
...billion-dollar properties. Five times he said no. Each time he left the door ajar and each time his callers returned bearing still more tempting offers. For the longer he waited in his bed, the weaker Mossadegh seemed, and the more anxious the West grew to prop him up against the Communists...