Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Leverett Saltonstall '14 (R, Mass.), Paul H. Douglas '16 (D, III.), Samuel J. Ervin, Jr. '21 (D, N. Car.), and Theodore F. Green, Law '92 (D, R.I.). John F. Kennedy '40 (D, Mass.), still has four more years in the Senate, making a total of five alumni in the upper house...
...long and So ft. wide, with twin decks, which are joined by big, vertical steel tubes that are driven into the sea floor by hydraulic jacks. The upper deck rides 50 ft. above the water and supports the drill rig; the lower platform is flooded and slides down the tubes to squat on the bottom for better anchorage. To move to another site, the lower deck is pumped out and refloated, and the "legs" are pulled back up. The main barge is connected to another, slightly smaller service barge with engine rooms, crew's quarters, helicopter platform...
Throughout most of the picture, the upper lip is held so stiff that one often wishes the characterization behind it had more teeth. But it is a good, workmanlike film, nevertheless, and Actor Kelly attains that rare thing in Hollywood movies about Americans in England: he indicates his Americanism without lapsing into an inane grin...
...program requires college seniors to be in the upper fourth of their class or have attained 80 or higher on the Selective Service examinations in order to gain graduate school deferment. It is designed "to provide a continuous flow of highly-qualified and well-trained men," James M. Mitchell, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense, informed the CRIMSON when contacted yesterday...
Under the earlier draft policy, as established by an Executive Order in March of 1951, college seniors had only to graduate in the upper half of their class or attain a score of 75 on the deferment test to be eligible for graduate school deferment...