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Exam days are always the dog days at the University. And the tail of the canine droops even lower when students find all their exams bunched into the beginning of the exam period. During the unhappy fortnight just passed, courses given at three of the most popular times--ten and eleven o'clock--tested their students during the first four days of the period. A glance at the spring schedule shows that this will happen again in April...
...NATO's buildup, Eisenhower ordered Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and Mutual Security Director Harold Stassen to make a quick, fact-finding trip through Europe within ten days after the inauguration. Another decision: his inaugural outfit, announced Eisenhower, would include no top hat or tail coat. Instead, he would wear: black Homburg, striped trousers, club coat, black and grey four-in-hand tie, turned-down starched collar...
...Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, Representative Dewey Short (Rep.-Mo). If Eisenhower endorses UMT as such (which is doubtful), Saltonstall expects little opposition in Congress to the bill. Short has consistently disapproved of many facets of UMT, and as House Armed Services Chairman could easily salt-tail the measure...
...shot, Low took over, and the Red pilot almost tired Low out, trying to scrape him off against a high ridge, then trying to blind him in the sun. At last Low got the enemy in his sights, poured .50-caliber slugs into the engine and tail section, saw the MIG's canopy fly off. But the American needed a few more hits in the MIG's cockpit and wing roots before the Red jet finally crashed and exploded. The fight had lasted 15 minutes, an unusually long time for jets. A few days later...
Like an Accordion. When the Korean war broke, the company was ready to step up production of Panthers (the first Navy jets to go into combat in Korea) by means of its "accordion plan." To keep capacity flexible without big capital outlays, this plan called for subcontracting wing panels, tail surfaces and other smaller parts to outsiders, not only for Panthers but also for the Cougar, a swept-wing Panther. Thus, Swirbul has kept his work force down to 11,800-less than half Grumman's wartime peak, although his order backlog has soared to roughly $900 million...