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...mechanics of the new program closely resemble those of the traditional, Honors-only tutorial. Ordinarily, students are assigned to tutors within their own House. The groups meet every two weeks for at least an hour, carrying a work load approximately equal to that of a half course spread over a full year. Also, Perkins tries to avoid situations where tutors cover the same material with different groups...
Despite the crushing load of cases that allowed him and his tiny staff-seldom more than one secretary and one investigator-no time to prepare any of them properly, he built up an impressive record of courtroom success. Items: Chippy handled 401 cases of homicide. "Even with 'cop killers,'" reports the author, "regarded by all living policemen as bloodstains on their shields, he did rather well." Chippy handled 25 such defendants; five of them got off scot-free, 15 went to prison, only five went to the chair. In the remaining 376 cases, Chippy won 166 acquittals...
...electric stair-climbing cart. The "Stair Cat" was introduced by General Electric for moving appliances and heavy equipment, hefts a 500-lb. load up or down stairs at the rate of 18 ft. per min., automatically brakes when the motor turns...
Said Arkansas Senator J. William Fulbright, who will carry the brunt of the load in the Senate drive for repeal: "As much as some Americans may dislike it, the U.S. has been thrust into the center of world affairs. Either we move to strengthen the mechanisms of world peace -of which the World Court is a conspicuous example-or we continue to suffer increasingly the frustrations of a world in which there is no real peace...
...seduces Ana. She longs for him to die, but he kills his man. And so Ana and the politician are bound together. Director Nilsson has tried, with considerable success, to express in 76 minutes much more than can be stated explicitly in that time. His film bears a heavy load of symbolism, of scenes such as the one in which swinish revelers set fire to one lavish apartment and then reel off drunkenly to another. Visions of a society's dying past and corrupt present unfold themselves long after the film is over. It is not society, however...