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...sextagon-shaped building, built along with the most recent of the Harvard Houses, has many large and comfortable suites, particularly those facing away from the adjacent MTA carbarns. But it is not for its physical setup that freshmen should choose Eliot House; instead they ought to consider the opportunities the House offers as far as meeting teachers and fellow-students, and as far as encouragement for constructive efforts in any field are concerned...
...chestful of medals for gallantry in action in World War II. Nickerson, moving upward through Army Ordnance to his big job at Redstone Arsenal, shared many Army officers' gnawing fear that the Army was being shouldered more and more to the sidelines of the U.S. defense setup. Specifically, Nickerson felt that the Army's Jupiter, a 1,500-mile intermediate-range ballistic missile, was more promising than the Air Force's I.R.B.M. Thor, and ought to be adopted. In other words, he was bent on getting the Army slap-bang into the Air Force's business...
...Senate Judiciary Committee hearing room, McCarthy glared balefully at New Jersey's able William J. Brennan, appointed by Ike to the Supreme Court last fall (TIME, Oct. 8) and now up for Senate confirmation. "Do you approve of congressional investigations and exposure of the Communist conspiracy setup?" asked Joe. Replied Brennan (who, while a justice on the New Jersey Supreme Court, had incurred Joe's hostility by referring to "Salem witch hunts" in public speeches): "Not only do I approve, Senator, but personally I cannot think of a more important or vital objective of its committee investigations than...
...packages (superchargers, fuel injection, etc.) that pushed their motors up to maximum performance and all were assembled and tuned with a care given to no car sold off the showroom floor. Detroit's assembly-line mechanics always allow for a certain amount of "slop tolerance"; Daytona's setup experts allowed almost no tolerance at all. They had thousands of valve springs from which to choose sets in perfect balance, hundreds of carefully matched pistons as spares...
...reunified Germany. Amid more cheers his military expert, Fritz Erler, spelled out the details of the proposed system: all European countries would join, contributing their own defense forces, subject to joint armaments control, mutual-assistance pacts and nonaggression treaties, with the U.S. and Soviet Russia guaranteeing the whole setup...