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...center for NASA, goes home after launch to a more or less circular pad with a guest wing as roomy as a Holiday Inn. One unit is decorated in passionate red, and the whole house is the sort of marshmallow dream that Hollywood merchants manufacture year after year to spoon glamour into the dull, grey life of your average mortgage-holder...
...little time to read, less time to reflect and almost no time to re-evaluate goals. complained that lectures were not well enough organized and failed to select out major facts and major concepts. Superficially it appears that Harvard students are simultaneously asking for more independence and more "spoon feeding." Yet these two requests are perhaps not as contradictory as they first appear, and both are a reflection of our approach to education. Perhaps what they are saying is this: If you insist on surveying every facet of medical knowledge, please give us some indication of what...
...digit has little or no sensation, and there is not much flexion at its joints. The new finger must be moved as a unit from the knuckle. This is no great drawback, particularly for thumb grafts, which have enabled patients to pick up and use tools, a pen, a spoon or a glass...
...House Press Secretary Robert Fleming, 54, Lyndon Johnson gets sneaky about it. Not long ago, Fleming told a group of labor editors, the President tiptoed into the kitchen late one night to raid the icebox. Just as he was digging into some tapioca pudding, the scraping of his metal spoon against the pan aroused Lady Bird, who must have the ears of an Apache scout. She chewed him out. Unrepentant, the President studied the problem for a while and then gave Fleming a short order: "Get me a wooden spoon...
...interest of the United States and Vietnamese people, although our emphasis should be on political objectives, not military objectives." He adds that the Vietnamese people should have local elections and a referendum in November 1966 and national elections a year later. It is a neat little package, spoon-fed to Brooke by several Harvard professors...