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Deliberate Man. To avert such a blood bath, Song deliberately set out to jolt Rhee out of the presidency. In three successive interviews, the general hammered at Rhee with heavy hints that if the students rioted again, the Korean army would probably refuse to shoot or even to quell them, and the two U.S. divisions manning the border with North Korea might well be withdrawn from the peninsula. Rhee listened, but temporized...
Small Beginning. If admissions men boil at Marson's bare-knuckled attack, few may disagree that essay exams are needed. For just this reason the College Board recently announced a short one (TIME, Nov. 9). To Marson, this is only a small beginning. He calls on colleges to jolt high schools by immediately restoring "honest grading and absolute standards of academic excellence...
...Governors of Iowa, Michigan. Minnesota. Missouri, South Dakota. Wisconsin and Colorado read off statements abounding in such jolt words as "desperation" and "depression." Said Iowa's Herschel C. Loveless, leader of the Governors' march on Washington: Farm income dropped 29% below the 1958 level in Iowa last year, and "the farm income slump threatens the health of our entire economy." Said Colorado's Stephen McNichols: The state's "farm economy has been slipping more each year toward insolvency." Said Minnesota's Orville L. Freeman: "The continued disastrous decline in farm income must be halted...
Zeus's job is to store electricity gradually, as in a huge storage tank, and then spit it out as a short but enormously powerful jolt of energy. And Zeus is dangerous, a fact well known to every one of the electricians who swarm over it. The least of Zeus's bolts could burn them to a crisp. When Dr. Tom Putnam, physicist in charge, gets ready to ask Zeus to hurl a trial thunderbolt, he takes elaborate precautions. First he locks the monster in its room. Then he starts the "permissive chain" on the control board...
...allowed to discharge as an open spark, this single shelf alone produces the electrical jolt of a smallish natural flash of lightning. When Zeus is finished and all its capacitors fire in unison, they will have roughly 100 times as much power. The discharge will flow for only a few microseconds. But while it flows, it will have twice the current of all the electric power generated on earth...