Word: b
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...culinary cubist" is certain, eventually, to come up with a tasty meal-in-one capsule. Then Mrs. Holstein can work overtime and still rush home to feed 14 admiring guests. If they were impressed with the factory-assembled meal, they will be ecstatic over capusules. EVELYN B. SPANG Ann Arbor, Mich...
...Inside a black-bordered box were listed 74 "organizations appearing in House and Senate committee records as favoring 'civil rights' and anti-South force legislation during 1957 and 1959." Among them: Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of North America, American Veterans Committee, Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, N.A.A.C.P., Catholic Interracial Council, the Protestant Episcopal Church, Improved Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks of the World, the Methodist Church, United Automobile Workers, and Young Women's Christian Association...
...many a college campus, a C is still a fashionable grade for a bright young man whose pursuit of fun often overrules his search for knowledge. But not any longer at Massachusetts' Amherst College. There "gentleman C" and even B students whose performances do not measure up to their abilities have a new name: underachievers. With the title is awarded a mandatory one-year leave of absence from the college. Last week, in his annual report, Amherst President Charles W. Cole said that the college's program to unload loafers had fared well during its first experimental year...
...Porter classified 51 students as potential underachievers. After a careful screening of the students' records, and conferences with them and their parents, five juniors and seven sophomores were told to take a year's leave. Of the twelve who failed to fulfill their potential, one had a B average, the others had C or below. All may return next fall, with what Amherst hopes will be "added maturity and perspective...
...Snow Train. The New York Central Railroad developed a snow blower that harnesses the exhaust of a B-36 jet bomber engine to blast its freight-yard tracks and switches free of snow. Mounted on a modified caboose with a huge nozzle, the engine can blow away snow...