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After almost a month of operation, the Cuban refugee airlift is shaking down into a steady, efficient rescue of people fleeing Castro's Communist dictatorship. The flights are now up to two planes a day, five days a week, and the Pan American DC-7s bring their full load of 95 passengers. In the first 24 days of the lift, some 2,500 Cubans left their unhappy homeland. Less than half settled in the Miami area, which already has 100,000 Cuban refugees. The rest of the newcomers went to other cities throughout the country...
...selective service board of appeals in California has refused to reverse the 1-A classification of a Harvard undergraduate, despite a letter from the University informing the board that the student is carrying a full course load and making normal progress...
Michael Ehrhardt '66 was classified 1-A by his local board in late October. Although Ehrhardt is a candidate for honors and has never taken a leave of absence, the board said it did not believe that he could be taking a full course load at the rate of only 12 units a year...
This is not the first case in which a local board has confused the 12 unit course load with a "half-time" course load and has classified a student 1-A. But in past cases a letter from the University has been sufficient evidence of "normal progress" to reverse the decision and secure deferment on appeal...
...details of this one was that it cost $100 million to build. In it, the rocket would be assembled stage, then moved by a "crawler" that can carry a 12-million pound load to a launching...