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...record of the man with the $600 gap is carefully scanned by the scholarship committee during the summer. If he has been doing Group 1 work, he will probably have the whole sum made up with an outright grant, and will not have to worry about working...
...means of these priority jobs that Monro and Taylor use student employment as a means of bridging the gap between a student's estimated expenses and resources during a school year. In this job classification a slight shift in emphasis has taken place this year, with financial need gaining over ability to do the job as a criterion for getting...
...year fills out a scholarship form listing his estimated expenses and resources for that year. In a typical case a student estimates that his expenses will be $1600, his resources from his family $1000. That leaves a difference--or as the Financial Aid men usually refer to it, a "gap"--of $600 which must be filled in if the student is to continue his education...
...most cases, however, a grant of about $200 is awarded, still leaving a gap of $400. The student is then presented a choice of obtaining a loan, going to work, or doing a combination of the two. "Some men will take a loan of $200 and get a $200 job and others will decide to work for the full $400," Monro says. "The important thing about it is that we leave students a choice, as opposed to places like Yale which do things on a rigid standard based on a man's standing in his class...
...Lattre's target was Communist stronghold Choben, lying in a gap between rugged, razorback mountain ranges 30 miles southwest of Hanoi, through which runs Route Coloniale No. 21. Slow-flying Junkers transports, trailing hooks, tore up Communist telephone lines, so that aid could not be summoned. Heavy artillery, brought up under cover of night to the base of the mountains, began hammering enemy strongpoints. Now, with roads and all vital bridges on the approaches to Choben in Commando hands, the French field commander, Three-Star General Gonzales de Linares, sent in tanks and infantry...