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McGrath meanwhile formulated his plans. He hopes to draw students from roughly the top third of high school classes rather than from the top 10% as many select schools do. His own high school grades were below average, yet he made Phi Beta Kappa at the University of Buffalo. "This country," he says emphatically, "was not built by the upper 10%." Full professors will be paid an average $15,000 a year, get 20 paid weeks off every third year. The curriculum will be pared to a relatively small number of liberal-arts courses to enable students...
...REALLY WANT TO DO (Imperial). Chér solos the Dylan song that lays down Martin Buber's I-Thou philosophy for teenagers: "I don't want to select you, dissect you, inspect you or reject you./ All I really want to do is be friends with you." Chér turns out to have a coarse, grainy alto voice with a wide-open quality that projects a lot of feeling without too much sentimentality...
...ready, and the plot was scheduled for the end of July during the regime's 13th anniversary celebrations. It seemed thorough in every detail. Hussein Tawfic, a veteran terrorist who had successfully rubbed out one of King Farouk's finance ministers, was put in command of a select group assigned to blow up Nasser in his motorcade. If he failed, other brothers were ready to blast Nasser off his presidential train somewhere between Cairo and Alexandria, and still others were prepared to shoot him on the way to his home in the suburbs of Cairo...
Apart from the problem of translation, the technology of bibliographic control in scientific fields is already a reality. A leader in the field is the National Library of Health in Bethesda, Md., which tries to acquire every publication relating to medicine. Librarians feed selected references from articles in 2,400 periodicals into two Honeywell computers. Then, by the use of key words, the computers each year arrange 150,000 citations alphabetically. This list is printed by a computer-driven phototypesetter, and the result is a book, the Index Medicus, which goes to 7,000 libraries around the world. A researcher...
Thus, the problem will automatically be put before a three-man tribunal. India and Pakistan will each select one member, while the vital third will be a man acceptable to both countries. The ruling Congress Party introduced a motion approving the Kutch agreement and giving Shastri a free hand to reach a settlement. It was accepted by Parliament...