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...Dean of Women, Elizabeth B. Kelly, is a warm, realistic woman who approaches her problem in a highly practical way. She came to Middlebury after World War II, during which she had to protect 21 girls from over a thousand men on a base in New Guinea. Noting that a diploma is only so good as a school's reputation, she says, "We of my sex want the privileges of a double standard without any of the responsibilities...
...anxiously watching that country's political situation, while biologists are contemplating the morphology of ferns, or gathering ants for study in the methods of social and organic evolution. The ant biologist has already a remarkable number of specimens, but, unsatisfied, he is thinking of a trip to New Guinea to help round out the collection...
Last week the last Comet overseas flew home from Ceylon without passengers, cruising at a relatively low 20,000 ft. De Havilland, which had first thought of sending test pilots aloft as human guinea pigs to duplicate the Italian crash conditions, has decided against it. Instead, it put mechanics to work taking apart two complete BOAC Comets, checking every part from trim tabs to turbine blades. At the R.A.F. test station at Farnborough, other experts examined the salvaged wreckage of the first Italian crash last January, including all four engines...
...Lowell after being turned down by his alma mater. Yale had been unprepared for his offer to finance subdivision, but Lowell was already strongly convinced overgrown Harvard had to be split up. Ten seconds after Harkness had offered his financial assistance, Harvard had for all practical purposes become the guinea pig for large American colleges...
Then begins a painstaking, month-long process of testing, with more tissue cultures and inoculations into live monkeys, rabbits, guinea pigs and mice to make sure that the vaccine is safe to inject into humans. These tests are made simultaneously on each batch of vaccine by the manufacturer, by Dr. Salk's laboratories and by the National Institutes of Health at Bethesda...