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...Transition Not a Shortcut...
...useful modification of rather than an illusory shortcut to education, the Advanced Standing program will try to smooth the transition between high school and college for those gifted students who are retarded by formal requirements...
Although the new shortcut made the headlines, Canadian and U.S. scientists aboard the expedition had a more important mission: taking soundings and recording data on the Arctic seas. With accurate charts, an atomic submarine, such as the U.S.S. Nautilus (TIME, Jan. 11), could cruise from the Atlantic to the Pacific under the Arctic icepack, virtually invulnerable to search and counterattack...
...being run, allowing each side to present all its witnesses, or it can limit the inquiry to only one or two of the principles. Senator McCarthy has endorsed the second alternative, saying that he has far more important matters to resume. This alternative, however expedient, is only a shortcut to distortion. By denying either side full freedom to present its case, the Committee would give the public an incomplete picture of the controversy. Equally important, it would give either side an excuse to pin a label of bias on the Committee's final report...
...that, thanks to the witnesses' equally devious minds, have so far caused no confusion. Jenkins likes to say "Did or not in happen that..." in lieu of the more unwieldy, if equally ungainly, "Did it or did it not happen that..." Extending the principle to derive other equally ugly shortcut, Jenkins frequently uses "Was or not it..." and "Will or not you say that...