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...corporations gradually settled into a rigid pattern. They admitted only the most socially acceptable students, taught them drinking and dueling, kept a fatherly eye on them ever after. Each new member (fox) had to prove himself in at least two duels; after becoming a full-fledged Bursch, he had to fight perhaps a dozen more. The dueling scar became a badge of honor on campus, a key to choice jobs later...
...short-haul business between New York, Chicago and Washington. But it gets comparatively few long-haul passengers because they prefer to take transcontinental lines. With Northwest's cross-country flights to Seattle-and its overseas arms to Honolulu and to Japan, Okinawa, Korea, Formosa and the Philippines-that pattern should change (see map). For its part, Northwest would cash in on Capital's Eastern business, and get a transcontinental route through Chicago, which it has long wanted...
When working out a problem on Mark I, the operator must first translate the information into mathematical terms. The resultant equations and instructions are then coded, punched out in a binary pattern of a paper tape and put in place on the machine...
...spite of reform, the pols always come back; the Sir Galahads, sooner or later, get licked, or get laughed out of court, or join the gang. But men like Adlai Stevenson have dedicated themselves to a more hopeful and more dynamic proposition: that the U.S. is not a static pattern but a still-continuing experiment-an experiment, among other things, in good government...
...price was a compromise. The U.S. wanted to pay $1.12; the British producers wanted $1.25. Since Malaya produces 34% of the world's tin, the new price may well establish the price pattern for Bolivian and Indonesian metal. In any case, the new flow of tin from Malaya will ease the drain on the U.S. stockpile...