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...Before a select audience of 250 rapt ladies and a dozen faintly bored gentlemen, some 13 bosomy A.E. Associates in flowing evening gowns gyrated gracefully about a stage in earnest imitation of atomic forces at work. An ample electron in black lace wound her way around two matrons labeled "proton" and "neutron" while an elderly ginger-haired Geiger counter clicked out their radioactive effect on a pretty girl named Agriculture. At a climactic moment, a Mrs. Monica Davial raced across the stage in spirited representation of a rat eating radioactive cheese. Mrs. Davial, it was noted in the program...
...each of the test questions, five possible answers are given. You are to select the correct answer and put its number on the answer sheet next to the number of that question. Example...
...other English greats, and ran them as serials. Overnight, Harper's became a success. Literary Americans became such fans of the magazine, not only for its fiction but for its factual articles on U.S. life, that Thoreau peevishly asked: "Why should we leave it to Harper & Brothers to select our reading...
...objective," says President Herter, "is to put into the international blood stream a group of skilled and select men." The job has not always been easy. President Herter and his overseers (among them: Air Secretary Thomas K. Finletter, U.N. Delegate Warren Austin) soon realized that without the facilities and backing of a big university, they would never be able to do all they hoped to do, or to get all the financial support needed to keep going...
...University. It would remain in Washington, keep its own staff, be independent of Hopkins' Walter Hines Page School of International Relations, which is directed by Owen Lattimore. But with the university behind it, President Herter could be pretty sure that his school would be turning out skilled and select men for a long time to come...