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According to Shannon McCune, Provost of the University of Massachusetts, that institution received only about 90 cents per student under the Program. "This is almost silly," he added, "but nobody shoots Santa Claus...
...Dawn. The night before, KLM Flight 607E, a two-month-old Super Constellation en route from Amsterdam to New York, had put down at Shannon Airport, and its passengers had trooped into the lounges and duty-free shops to sip Irish coffee, have a last buying spree, scribble a few final postcards. On board the economy flight when it took to the air again were its crew of eight and 91 passengers, including three babies in arms, a honeymoon couple, 13 members of the Church of the Brethren from Lancaster County, Pa., three Polish immigrants to the U.S., an Israeli...
...what force had hurled the Constellation to its death, although burns on the recovered bodies and metal fragments embedded in some suggested an explosion before the plane hit the sea. Only one little boy wore a life jacket, perhaps at the urging of an anxious parent. Flyers at Shannon speculated that a propeller might have sheared off, plowed into the packed cabin and perhaps ignited the fuel tanks which had been filled to capacity before takeoff...
...including $220 million in congressional appropriations. $130 million spent by industry, $50 million by foundations, voluntary health associations, universities and their medical schools. Is this enough? For the present, yes was the consensus of the experts quizzed by Bayne-Jones's group. Or as Dr. James A. Shannon, director of the National Institutes of Health (which handles 70% of the Government's outlays in this field), last year told Congress: "For the first time in the history of medical research, the limitation on progress is due more to [shortage of] manpower than moneys available...
Following this, at 3:30 p.m., William A. Shannon, Executive Director of the National School Boards Association, will speak on "School Board Look at Their Schools...