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...Well, Mr. Bingham, it looks like they've finally gotten rid of the sanity code," we said...
...subject has felt drowsy, gotten a "slight buzz," and been "just bored" after the first three injections. Another has been sick every time. The subjects disagree as to whether it is worth $50, but they fell they are making a "contribution to science...
...twelve years I've been here," replied Mulvihill, "the maids salaries have risen from 41 to 97 cents per hour. Since last year they've gotten a 12 cent wage boost. Why, when I first came here they were working every day but Christmas." The maids now work a five day week...
...satisfied, McCarthy fired off a list of questions to Army Secretary Frank Pace. Was it enough, as Pearson claimed it was, to change a few words to protect the U.S. code? Had the Pentagon cleared the messages for publication, and if not, how had Pearson gotten them? Pace replied that the messages were classified material, and that the Army had not approved them for publication. But for technical reasons, Pace wrote, "cryptographic security has not been violated." Nevertheless, the Army had started a special investigation to find out how Pearson got the messages (six days before McCarthy had raised...
Things have gotten to the point now where further attempts to finish up all course work will prove a hollow mockery. The erudite student finds that his time will be best spent in evolving a system for writing exams and term papers. Unfortunately, the faculty has been wising up recently and such veteran maneuvers as the missing blue book no longer work. In its place we recommend the following five new fresh approaches to the problem of feigning knowledge: 1) The use of the colon; 2) the graduating senior ploy; 3) The Chinese ploy; 4) The Radcliffe ploy...