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...Annapolis and West Point, the Air Force Academy already has its stock exchanges for the moment when a cadet is braced by an upperclassman. On returning to barracks, the cadet says: "New Cadet Blank returning to base, three-green"-a reference to the three green lights on the instrument panel showing that the landing gear is down and locked. If an air training officer wants a cadet to do something on the double, he says: "One hundred percent with afterburner." For no reason at all, he may command a cadet: "Report your position and give your next checkpoint...
...atomic energy for peaceful purposes, he drove out to the exhibition building which the U.S. has erected to house its atomic display for the forthcoming international atomic conference, peered down at the eerily glowing tank containing an experimental atomic pile, stared in admiration at the control panel's dials, buttons and graphs...
...entire panel agreed that one step toward consistent safety would be the elimination of the virulent Mahoney strain of virus. (This would certainly take months, possibly years.) By nose count, the Salk program car ried again. When Chairman Priest got Yale's Professor John R. Paul (School of Medicine) to poll the panel of 15 experts, the result was 8 to 3 in favor of going on with Salk inoculations, and four abstentions (including Dr. Salk himself). Surgeon General Leonard A. Scheele hurried forward with a statement reaffirming his endorsement of continued manufacture and vaccination. Nonetheless, the question...
...Parents should stop worrying about eyestrain among teen-age children, Dr. Warren A. Wilson told a panel on adolescent problems in Los Angeles. Reason: eyes are designed to last 100 years, barring disease or injury. Ophthalmologist Wilson advised parents not to force adolescents to wear glasses if they don't want to: "It really doesn't do any good to force them, and it doesn't make that much difference...
...last seven years the panel at the University of Cincinnati has made more than 80 appearances, spoken to well over 80,000 people. When it began, the city was still seething with tension between its Negroes and the new wartime population of Southern workers. The various panels have spoken at clubs, plants and schools, but some of their best work has been done at the university itself. When this year's chairman, Roman Catholic Ann Grieme, first arrived at Cincinnati and unpacked her statue of the Virgin, a classmate mocked: "What are you trying to do, make a church...