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Seminars carrying course credit can be taken by qualified students in lieu of one of their usual courses. A non-credit seminar is generally taken in addition to the normal load...
Grinding up Oregon's 12,000-ft. Canyon Creek Pass one recent evening, the drivers of three mammoth trailer trucks stared in astonishment as a Pacific Intermountain Express Co. rig with a huge load and a notably undersized engine compartment blithely pulled past them. Driving the P.I.E. truck was a power plant that marked a long step forward in U.S. engine design; the V8-265 Vine diesel turned out by Cummins Engine. Co. of Columbus, Ind. Built on a new (for diesels) over-square* design, the Vine is as much as 44% smaller and lighter than other comparable diesels...
...laude high school graduate, Joyce will shoulder a stiff scholastic load at Holy Cross (subjects: Greek, Latin, German, English, history, theology). He will pay his way by pitching, and he expects to improve on a four-year high school and American Legion record of 59 victories (including seven no-hitters) and 12 losses. The big leagues can wait. "If the arm holds out," says Dick Joyce, "the money should still be there...
...word of welcoming brass that the Peace Corps is to be no immature "kiddie corps.'' Arms aching with shots for everything from typhoid to TB, they began studying 60 hours a week on a six-day schedule (plus exams on Sundays) that is twice the load of ordinary Penn State students. In the Philippines, they will mainly teach elementary science, serve as models of spoken English. But to prepare, they are tackling everything from Philippine history, culture and economics to family habits and sex mores (advice from one Filipino lecturer: "No touch.")-plus first aid, nutrition, U.S. history...
Thanks to Russell's ceaseless questioning and streamlining-a process known to Southern Pacific hands as "Russellization" -his railroad now handles a bigger load than it did a decade ago with little more than half the work force it then had. Fort night ago, the railroad telegraphers' union indignantly complained to a presidential mediation board that Russell had shut down 149 stations in the last six years, closing and consolidating facilities that other U.S. railroads would have kept open much longer...