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Bluntly, alumni Class Reunions--especially the 25th--have become characterized as drunken brawls. A typical description tion, appearing in The New York Times Magazine several years ago, spoke of "the grotesque costumes, the irrational deportment, and the genial acceptance by the institution's money-raising departments of disorder which at any other time would cause the High Command to put in a hurry call for the campus Gestapo to get in there and do its stuff...
...make the satellite stick safely to its orbit. Reaching orbital speed is the job of the third-stage rocket. The final rocket will be small and will use solid fuel, which requires no tricky pumps or valves. It will fire for 30-60 seconds, depending on how much accelera tion the delicate instruments in the satellite can take without damage. When the fuel is gone, the burned-out rocket will be on an orbit. Rosen figures that it will have enough speed to carry it around an ellipse whose apogee (highest point) will be 1.400 miles above the earth...
Staying Power. From its start, the strike was marked by hatred and intransi gence between the negotiators; each side underestimated the staying power of the other. Inside the conference room, government mediators headed by Federal Media tion Chief Joseph F. Finnegan listened in dismay as the negotiators battled not to ward settlement but farther from it. Once, a union spokesman looked across at a Westinghouse official and bellowed: "You are a goddam tramp." On another occasion, I.U.E. President James Carey strode out of the room after calling Westinghouse "the dirtiest, filthiest, lousiest company on the globe" Management dropped such remarks...
...anyone who scoffs at the soldier's trade will not appreciate its virtues. But after two World Wars and a "police action," there should be quite a few U.S. readers who will applaud the sometimes sentimental, consistently knowledgeable and colorful account of one man's devo tion to duty...
...some penal experts, the shock centers' spit-and-polish routine seems merely brutalizing. Says W. J. Bray, chief proba tion officer for Kent: "I say it is destructive . . . Why don't they pay more attention to boys' minds?" The London Daily Herald got into the fight by arguing that the shock centers leave their graduates more embittered than before...