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Thomas R. Hart, Jr., Instructor in Romance Languages and Literatures, was worried that Radcliffe and Harvard students, used to leading, a soft life with no afternoon or weekend classes, might "wander" into class at 8:15, thereby missing part of the exam...
When interruptions cease, some of the victims try desperately to think about their studies, or to occupy themselves with intellectual problems. For the most part, they fail. Little by little their brains go dead or slip out of control. They cannot concentrate; their thoughts wander aimlessly. Their arithmetic drops to primary-school level...
...McCarthyism, millions of us are nauseated by the way certain members of the Labor Party play "footsie" with the Reds. Mr. Attlee, an ex-soldier, should know better, or at least have some vestige of pride in his country . . . I can only hope that as these ambling dreamers wander around the Orient as guests of the Reds . . . the British dead in Korea don't get up from their graves with disgust...
...What kind of confidence," asked London's conservative Daily Sketch, "can Britain have in such naive tourists who wander happily into the spider's web and expect to tie a bow around his neck...
...delivery problem." Says he: "Today we can build a thermonuclear weapon with as much yield as we want. The problem is how to get the damn thing there." To find the answer. Quesada will tap 200 of the country's top scientists, give them absolutely free reign to wander through the problem at an 80-acre laboratory in Van Nuys, have them delve into theoretical electronics and upper-air travel. He will pay high salaries, encourage them to soak up academic atmosphere by letting them teach part-time at three nearby universities: CalTech. U.C.L.A. and U.S.C. For the final...