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Illness prevented one of the two scheduled pianists from performing, with a resulting insecurity that will hopefully be rectified by this afternoon (along with a somewhat trigger-happy light board technician). Cecelia Hopkins played the flute obbligatos with assurance...
...encouragement, had bested Dagnan's mark. Then civilians began hitting the road. Among them: a walker who drank 16 pt. of milk en route; a 14-year-old schoolboy; two bowler-hatted, brief-cased, brolly-toting civil servants from Bath. By week's end an R.A.F. technician had got the time down to less than 28 hr. A Russian-born doctor, Barbara Moore, 56, also claimed to have made the trip in under 28 hr., shod in gunny sacks, eating watercress and honey, and carrying her pet tortoise, Fangio by name, who slept on a hot-water bottle...
Summertime. The first critic to stop being constructive after 1905 was a longtime guardian angel-the college professor who once took a proprietary interest in high school standards. When professors took a good look at the proletarianized high school, they left it to what they considered a lowbrow technician-the education professor. And to figure out how to run the schools, the "educationists" seized upon Philosopher Dewey's innocent theory that children learn best by being interested instead of disciplined. It fitted the educationists problems, muses Conant, "as a key fits a lock...
Accepted by the University of Puerto Rico for a year's graduate course in social work: Nathan Leopold, 54, a hospital laboratory technician in Puerto Rico since March 1958, when he was paroled from an Illinois prison after serving 33 years for teaming up with Richard Loeb (murdered in a jailhouse brawl) in the 1924 thrill killing of little Bobby Franks...
Feeling more and more like an automaton himself, the patient goes down the line. In one cubicle, a technician takes a blood sample, feeds it into a machine that spins out and counts the cells, measures the concentration of certain key chemicals. In another, the patient gives a urine specimen. Again, a machine reduces it to neat chemical symbols and figures...