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Given these facts, the response of University officials (off the record) and Mrs. Bunting (on the record) has been both realistic and constructive. Mrs. Bunting has not pledged implaccable opposition to the roue, if the MBTA does indeed select it. What she has said is that she wants to be convinced that this is the best possible path for the subway...
Under the proposed plan, as in the system in effect through last year, a Master would know the names of everyone who had applied for his House. He would then be able to select a limited number of applicants--not necessarily as many as under the old method...
...addition, the Ed School will select 15 teachers to do long-term research projects under the supervision of its Faculty...
Peace Corps officials, however disagree. They are confident they can select out the "deadbeats" from a larger flow of volunteers. Neither would the volunteer spirit nor the quality of the applicants suffer. Draftees would still have to elect the Peace Corps over the army: the pay would be lower, the work harder, and the standards--with an increase in applicants--could be raised considerably. Moreover, the highly qualified body of college students, who now shun the Peace Corps for the greater security of graduate school, could now volunteer without fear of further obligation when they return to school...
...last year-with half a wing burned away. If private cars were serviced as intensely as commercial planes, each driver would need three full-time mechanics, and his auto would be fully inspected before every trip, however short. As for pilots, the airlines select only one applicant out of 20, spend $1,000 an hour to train him, retest him every six months, send him back to flight school once a year, and pay him up to $40,000 a year. With rare exceptions, the pilots are well worth it. Says Jerome Lederer, director of the Flight Safety Foundation...