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...Mystery. After the sky-stabbing record flight last week, four Xis pilots -White. Walker, North American's Scott Crossfield and Navy Commander Forrest Petersen-journeyed to Washington, where President Kennedy gave them the Robert J. Collier Trophy, presented annually since 1911 for outstanding achievement in flight. But for White and his fellow X-15 pilots, the greatest reward for their work is the satisfaction of probing the mysteries inside the sky. In last week's flight Bob White found a new mystery for scientists to puzzle over: through the X-15's thick left quartz window...
...sophomores on the Varsity include Ivor Petersen at stroke, George Welch at seven, Jim MacMahon at six, Mike Mac-Kenzie at three, and Dave Strauss at two. Charles McClennon rounds out the first boat...
...real case for Ernst Janning's innocence, as Rolfe knows, can be won only by proving the veracity and legality of his decisions. And so he calls back to the stand two people convicted under the Nazis: Rudolf Petersen, who was 'legally' castrated under the sterilization decrees, and Irene Hoffman, whose friendship had cost an elderly Jewish man his life. As Rolfe begins retrying these people, Janning is stirred into a recognition and awareness of his own complicity...
Schell plays Rolfe with such drive that the terms of his investigation are accepted. The Nazi premises are forgotten, and the issue becomes one of Petersen's intelligence quotient rather than the morality of castrating the children of the regime's opponents...
...Petersen Elder, Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, flatly disagreed with Conant's position. "Harvard should certainly not become a preparatory school for graduate school," Elder said...