Word: groups
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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President Patty may feel that beards, Levi's and mukluks are out of place here, but here are a few of the unquashed beard wearers on campus. Civilization, with its group conformity, has not taken over this campus yet, and we are neither shaving nor going to Point Barrow...
...grim group of Washington strategists tossed out the possibility that a crisis growing out of the Paris summit conference might change the whole picture.Such a time of national peril, they suggested, could make the Democratic Convention reject Kennedy as too young and too inexperienced to cope with Nikita Khrushchev. A better crisis candidate, the whisper went, might be Johnson, the cool, bipartisan helmsman, or Symington, the military expert, or Stevenson, the internationalist. It all had the sound, though, of whistling in the growing dark...
...lions, tigers and water buffalo, but always on foot and never from the safety of a tree platform. In World War II, he enlisted in the French Foreign Legion; after France fell he joined the British forces and served as a liaison officer with the U.S. Sixth Army group, winning the French Legion of Honor, the Croix de guerre with palms, the U.S. Bronze Star, and a citation for bravery under fire...
...choices. Using a typical method, Columbia's Dean of Undergraduate Admissions David Dudley lined up 3,000 applications for 670 places. His staff first ranked each boy on the sole basis of two aptitude scores. Some were clearly admissible on this basis, some not. The problem: 800 middle-group applicants for 400 places. From then on, intangibles were vital. The chief gauge: "Finding the kid who looks stronger on incentive, who has a real motive." Recalls Dudley: "We moved around the table, shuffling papers. We moved more and more slowly." It took two days to eliminate...
...Teletype-lined room at Space Technology Laboratories in El Segundo. Calif, gathered a group of tense men. There was a chance that the big transmitter might malfunction and that in its failure it might silence completely its five-watt companion, leaving Pioneer V with no voice at all. Before being sent into space, the big transmitter had been tested rigorously. It had been shaken, spun, heated and cooled. It had survived all such tortures, but no test on earth could duplicate the hostile environment of space...