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...things considered, we can see no toward from these measures that would not at best be offset and at worst outweighed by their detects. Amateur athletics are not something plastic adjusting briefly to popular indignation then resuming their neo professional shape. De-emphasis must be permanent and thorough, despite incidental irritations. We hope that the Ivy League presidents in meeting assembled this January will not tamper with their current program, especially for so little purpose as the Princetonian suggests...
...15th Infantry, in which he served as a lieutenant colonel at Fort Lewis, Wash, more than twelve years ago. He stood in the chow line of B Company, 1st Battalion, then sat down on an old ammunition box with three G.I.s to eat pork chops and sauerkraut off a plastic plate. They chatted about the news-Ike freely, the enlisted men with awe at their guest-and Ike made a surprising confession: "I don't read the papers," he said. "I wait until they come out and tell me. If it is bad enough, I'll hear...
...achieve this, Dr. Feinbloom applied the principle of the microscope and made doublet lenses-really two lenses in a plastic rim, with a sealed air space in between. He also flattened the outer curves of the lenses from spherical to paraboloid shapes. The doublet lenses focus at infinity and the eye itself makes the focusing adjustment for objects beyond a few feet away. A short-focus pair is used for reading...
Even a small satellite could be made to shine at dusk. It could inflate a plastic balloon which would gleam as brightly in the sunlight as a first-magnitude star. This "American star," rising in the west, should make a powerful impression on the peoples of Asia...
Revolving Doughnut. The completed satellite station will be a doughnut-shaped object 250 feet in diameter, made of plastic-impregnated nylon inflated with air. It will revolve slowly, its motion providing a centrifugal substitute for gravity. "Down" will be outward, so the crew will walk with their feet toward the outer wall of the ring...