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...fresh pack of cigarettes because it is good psychology "to break the ice" when he meets people. Louis is a boy of modest origin and of modest imagination who in spite of such failings can perceive that the only way to get anywhere in the world is to snag the attention of the boss, to show him what a fellow with a genuine dose of ambition can really...
Reputation of the Associated Colleges has helped assure prospective students of Harvey Mudd's solidity, but recruiting has hit one notable snag: by week's end, the college had not been able to enmesh a senior transfer student. A senior class, even of one member, would let the school apply for accreditation-necessary to make students eligible for national scholarships and fellowships...
...established wow. Ticket-hungry New Yorkers and summer visitors swarmed around the box office at every performance, trying to wangle one or two seats in the orchestra ($8.05)-or even a square foot of standing space ($3). The Music Man was the toughest ticket in town, even harder to snag than My Fair Lady, and, for expense-account buyers, worth the $50 scalpers' price...
...deterrent concept. Already 2,000 STRAC men have been geared to a constant two-hour alert at U.S. bases; the hurry-up ''Nixon airlift" of two companies of the zoist Airborne to Puerto Rico last fortnight showed what STRAC's advance guard could do. But the snag about STRAC as a whole is that it is dependent upon the Air Force's inadequate force of troop-carrier aircraft to be able to fight anywhere in any strength. Within a limited war's crucial first 36 hours, the Air Force could lift no more than...
...Wonder. The big snag in the plan was the top Conservative, tough old (69) ex-President Laureano Gómez. Angry at the moderate wing of his party for supporting his ouster by Rojas in 1953, Gómez ruled its members out of the running as joint presidential candidate, thereby ruled out every top-quality candidate the Conservatives had. Weeks of bickering finally convinced Gómez that Liberal Lleras was the best choice...