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Doty also predicted that maintaining Gen Ed on a voluntary basis, as Constable suggested, would "make the existing situation worse." The Committee on General Education would have an even harder time than it now does in organizing good courses, he said, and it would be afraid to scrap the bad ones, for fear the program would dwindle out of existence...
...vessels-the aircraft carrier Melbourne, three destroyers (there were four until the Melbourne accidentally sliced one in half last February), and a handful of frigates and minesweepers. The northern port of Darwin is garrisoned by only 150 troops; its coastal guns have been dismantled and sold to Japan as scrap; Darwin has no antiaircraft batteries, and until last month the single radar station operated from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Mondays through Fridays only...
...paints his mobiles with brushes instead of spraying them. Sprung from the modern esthetic that sees wisdom in childhood, his work is a comment on, rather than patent approval of, the Machine Age. For the fun of it, Calder makes his own family kitchenware-ladles, forks, spoons-using leftover scrap metal; he snips out toys for his grandchildren and jewelry for his wife. He is, in effect, a sophisticated primitive who sees the root of art in craft and invention...
...result of extensive criticism among its staff and the entire Harvard community, the Yearbook has decided to scrap its traditional brief review of each undergraduate activity, sport, and organization in favor of a sharp focus on outstanding aspects of the various fields, according to Benning M. Grice, Jr. '65, managing editor...
...hero inhabits an Eden teeming with rivers of bourbon,sierras of sirloin and herds of gorgous girls who will do almost anything for a Hershey bar. Happily, there is a serpent in this paradise: an admiral (Melvyn Douglas) more concerned about congressional hearings ("They're tryin' to scrap the Navy!") than he is about the Germans...