Word: second-class
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...time: the "awesome" academic load is some 21 class hours a week, plus military training and compulsory athletics. Worse, says Boroff, most of the 358-man faculty (only 14 have doctorates) are short-tour officers who tend to follow canned lesson plans. Says Boroff: "Academically, West Point is a second-class college for first-class students...
Indians explained that no planes were flying because of the Chinese border war; eventually they provided second-class train tickets for the two-day trip. At that, Ambassador Paz angrily complained to the Indian protocol office, which put the team on a flight to Madras-just in time for the monsoon rains. "When we finally got there,'' said Coach Contreras, "the boys were afraid to eat the food, and were losing weight...
...with distinction. In short, the English Department believes in separating the Honors man from his non-Honors counterpart in a way that is as open, honest, and obvious as possible. The Gill plan proponents, who do not like the idea of making half the College into what they call "second-class citizens," prefer to let the students separate themselves into thesis-writers and non-thesis writers, with the final judgment between Honors and non-Honors being put off until June of the senior year...
...present conference at Geneva should break down, it cannot be reconversed without the presence of chin. Which is on the verge of becoming a nuclear power. By think there will be either new nuclear powers demanding or resisting invitations to the conference. France is only the first second-class power to realize that the nuclear weapon is the ultimate equalizer, and to adopt this dangerous route beak to the summit...
...charter buses, requiring the Russians to bring in their own fleet. The students booked all the available hotel space so that the Russians, Poles and East Germans were forced to house their delegations aboard ships that had carried them to Finland. Africans from Moscow's Lumumba University traveled second-class by rail, their wallets stuffed with rubles worthless in Finland. From Britain came ban-the-bombers; Cuba dispatched Fidelistas; Guinea sent a troupe of dazzling, costumed dancers. About 100 anti-Communists had infiltrated the earnest pacifists, all-purpose beatniks, and party-liners of the 450-member U.S. group...