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...Time to Prune. The Presbyterian San Francisco Theological Seminary has also upped its standards, says Dean of Students Dr. Edward Stein. "We offer a five-to-ten-year debt and no salary to pay it off with when a student is through school, while industry offers a half to a full salary all the way through school. The result is a tougher, more dedicated kind of student. The bulk of today's students will be better ministers. This is the time to prune, not scoop in everything...
...hotel room for three days with nervous fatigue. As for the show itself. Composer Loewe had armored himself in a metaphor. "When you see it." he warned visitors just before curtain time, "remember that when a baby is born, its face is all wrinkled, it looks like a prune. It is red and ugly and you say, Ts that my baby? No. Never.' But six weeks later, the baby has smooth, soft skin. Six weeks from now, Camelot will be the most beautiful infant ever...
...space is a tough neighborhood for frail balloons. Microscopic meteorites punctured Echo's skin, allowing the gas inside to seep out. Sunlight exerted a slight but persistent pressure. Gradually Echo lost its regular shape; flat places and wrinkles appeared on its shiny surface. "She's prune-faced already," says Richard Slater of G. T. Schjeldahl, Northfield, Minn., the company that made the balloon. When Echo turns deliberately about once in eight to ten minutes, flat places sometimes act as mirrors, making the sun's reflection momentarily brighter. Wrinkled places dim the reflection. The radio waves that...
...real villains of the novel are the unscrupulous distillers-who make cheap whisky by adding prune juice to grain neutral spirits-and the temperance wowsers. The author writes of these malefactors with great eloquence and contempt, accusing the former of betraying mankind for profit and the latter of sexual irregularities...
...American League: Manager Paul Rapier Richards, 51, a sharp-featured, sharp-thinking Texan with a rare talent for developing young players. Last week, while kids with autograph books were besieging his long-forlorn Orioles in the lobby of Manhattan's Hotel Roosevelt, Richards ordered a breakfast of prune juice, dry cereal and coffee in suite 727-729 and leaned back to talk about the task of building a winner from scratch...