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Social relations, for example, does not use teaching fellows for junior tutorial, and some members of the board of tutors are unaware that this is unusual; the department tries to keep the tutorial load on its members down to one thesis per advisor, while a department like History may make a fifth of instructional time cover five theses or three to four junior tutees. The department is bottom-heavy, with an excess of junior members, and it would be difficult to increase the instructional staff...
...unbelievable,'' said a top White House staffer, recalling his days as Kennedy's assistant on Capitol Hill. "We didn't realize how much time we were wasting up there.'' Some veteran Kennedy aides had been apprehensive about the President's work load before they moved into the White House. Now, seeing their boss at work, freed from the time-wasting small worries of a campaigner and a Senator, and clothed with enormous authority, they worried no more. "I think one man can do this job,'' said a friend, "when...
...submarine-launched Polaris, an intermediate range (1,200 miles) solid-fueled missile. The Air Force went to work on Minuteman, designed to be fired some 6,000 miles from bases in the continental U.S. Like Polaris. Minuteman packs a half-megaton punch (only one-third of the explosive load of the fully developed, liquid-fueled Atlas and only one-fifth of the giant warhead of the liquid Titan). Like Polaris and the Army's tactical Pershing missile, Minuteman is cheaper and far simpler to handle than its liquid-fueled predecessors, requires a much smaller crew. Once built and armed...
...week clerk, and he lost his job. (Later, Walgreen officials insisted that Thompson had asked for a transfer.) The landlady ordered the Thompson family to get out of their $70-a-month apartment. Without telling anyone where they were going, John Thompson and his family took a load of wet wash off the line, packed the rest of their belongings and left New Orleans...
...money the U.S. was going to get anyway. In addition, the Germans quietly shelved the billion-dollar program of aid to underdeveloped countries that had been announced with such fanfare last fall as their great gesture to help share the U.S.'s foreign aid load in 1961. Adenauer's Christian Democrats pleaded that they face elections this fall, dare not confront the voters with such a costly program...