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Experimental programs to shorten the time between high school and shingle from nine to seven years are under way at the University of Vermont, Johns Hopkins and Northwestern. If such plans work well enough to be widely adopted, they should make preparation for the career of medicine less onerous and therefore more attractive. But nothing can be accomplished overnight or by fiat...
Polaris & Minuteman. The decision to bet on the future of the Polaris and Minuteman systems, and to put up with a missile gap in the meantime as a calculated risk, entails a responsibility to push Polaris and Minuteman as fast as possible in order to shorten the duration of the gap. But the 1961 defense budget provides for starts on only three Polaris submarines (nine have been authorized by Congress). And although the U.S. is depending upon Minuteman to close the missile gap in 1963-64, the Administration is doing next to nothing to assure that when Minuteman is ready...
...time in making his policy known. While President Eliot had pleaded in his final report for a sweeping adoption of the three year degree "to save the College," Lowell, in his inaugural address on Oct. 6, 1909, declared, "The most vital measure for saving the College is not to shorten its duration, but to ensure that it shall be worth saving." And from then on, the three year degree was doomed...
...flop songs and scenes, and a less lively second act. The show's chief liability is that bane of musicals, love, which-requited or unrequited-can seem banal. Even so, the show's chief asset. Director Abbott's testing everywhere for pace and pep, helps to shorten the doldrums. And for the evening as a whole, the reaction to the Abbott test is decidedly positive...
...elephants in the procession stepped on some live coals dropped by accident from a torch. Trumpeting with pain, the huge beast charged its keeper, who daringly managed to catch it. chain the injured animal to a lamppost. The crowd closed in, jeering and taunting. Someone tried to shorten its chain, instead freed the maddened elephant, which this time charged the tormenting crowd, stomping with legs like tree trunks, flailing, smashing. A woman and child fell under its feet. The fleeing mob trampled eleven more people to death and injured 316 before the elephant was brought down by police bullets, crushing...