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...Society's spirit lies in what it considers "legitimate." While it expects some kind of scholarly return for its investment in a man, the exact area of a member's work is left purposely vague. The Senior Fellows, in interviewing a man, make no effort to pin him down closely on his projected work. They place their hopes in the general possibilities of a creative thinker rather than in his specific plans or even past achievements. But despite the shortness and informality of the interview, the meetings have been described as "devastating." A report of one of the interviews reads...
Billy Joe played his trick shot, lacing a No. 6 iron through a narrow opening, up and over a yawning trap, and landing the ball about 45 feet from the pin. After his approach putt, Billy Joe was still five feet away, while Welsh had a mere two-footer. Patton confidently plunked his five-footer into the cup. Welsh, finally unnerved by Billy Joe's breezy confidence, missed the two-footer and lost the match...
...more important matters to resume. This alternative, however expedient, is only a shortcut to distortion. By denying either side full freedom to present its case, the Committee would give the public an incomplete picture of the controversy. Equally important, it would give either side an excuse to pin a label of bias on the Committee's final report...
...larger seating capacity, is often free during exams scheduled in Fogg. While its alpine slope may seem a strain on the University's policy of minimum temptation, by scattering students properly, Burr could be just as safe. Moreover, both Burr A and B are equipped for slides and offer pin point lighting, so that students can write while the room is dark...
...recent weeks, Chicken-lickens have been rubbing their heads all across the U.S. It started last month at Bellingham (pop. 34,000), in northwest Washington, not far from where the first flying saucer was sighted. Auto owners noticed pockmarks, some as small as pin heads, others as big as peanuts, on the outer surfaces of their windshields. At first the victims blamed vandals, then ghosts and then some mysterious molten droplets falling out of the sky. In about the time that it takes a feature story to move over a press association's wire, the ghostly, ghastly pox spread...