Word: roster
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Houses undeserved bad reputations. The first step in the process would be for Masters in Houses with few first choice applicants to choose as many freshmen as they needed from the common pool. The Masters could thereby sidestep the unsavory practice of "raiding" a popular House's first choice roster, and at the same time build up their own Houses by claiming the cream of the freshman class...
Class No. 5-bringing to 50 the total roster of active astronauts-is younger and better educated than the original Mercury team (32.8 years v. 34.5; 5.8 years of college v. 4.3). All 19 are seasoned jet pilots. Seven are Air Force officers, six Navymen, two Marines and four civilians. One, Air Force Captain Joe H. Engle, who last June rocketed an X-15 experimental plane to an altitude of 53.1 miles, has already reached the lower fringes of space. Two are Viet Nam veterans: Lieut. Commander Paul J. Weitz, recently returned home after flying 132 combat missions...
...Coach Norm Shepard had Paul Del Rossi and a lot of names on the roster, and they put together a 21-2 season, winning both Eastern
Senators never wholly forget their ancient charge and tradition-there are still snuffboxes at the Senate lobby entrance, sand for blotting letters on every desk, quill pens available on demand. The Senate roster also still retains a collection of first names not to be found in any other body and surpassing even the cast of characters in a 19th century novel-Ross, Birch, Caleb, Gordon, Norris, Hiram, Bourke, Lister, Spessard, Roman, Gale, Thruston, Claiborne, Winston, Leverett, Strom, Harrison. This assemblage is still magisterial in form if not in substance, still flinging its sounding periods into the stillness of the Congressional...
...about 5% higher this year for students with master's or bachelor's degrees. Electrical engineers, still the most sought-after group, are being offered average starting salaries of $661 a month, $20 more than last year. Chemical engineers, moving from seventh place to third on the roster of most-wanted skills, are being offered $673, higher than any other graduates. Solid salaries are being waved at every kind of diplomate: $561 a month for accountants, $662 for metallurgists, $634 for physicists, even a higher-than-ever $524 a month for the humanities as Government agencies recruit social...