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Watching the 43-year-old President's first, fast weeks in office, even John Fitzgerald Kennedy's sharpest critics had to admit that for better or worse he was bringing uncommon vigor to his presidential clerkship. His staff and his Cabinet had long since accepted him as an active boss who would not hesitate to order the toning down of a speech by tough-minded Admiral Arleigh Burke, to personally dress down an aide responsible for a critical news leak...
...only the large Ivy League schools whose applications are decreasing, for Amherst's figures show the sharpest drop of all. Eugene Wilson, Amherst's Dean of Admissions, felt that many prospective applicants were aiming toward the larger eastern schools, since Amherst has had such a low percentage of acceptances in the past. "An applicant feels his chances are better if one in five is accepted for a class of 1200 than if the same percentage is accepted for a class of only 250," he said...
...showed up poorly in last week's Nielsen ratings, it could find some consolation in color. While the network continued to expand its color coverage, including everything from Macbeth to Jack Paar, RCA reported that "although black-and-white TV sales dropped 7%, color television showed the sharpest rise of any consumer product on the market-up 30% over 1959." Possible threat for next season: a color western, with all that blood in living (or dying...
...easy to translate. Their first problem will be to select the proper radio frequency: there is no use picking one at random. Unless listening earthlings know how to tune their receivers, they will hear nothing. Therefore, says Purcell, the aliens will select the 21-cm. waves, which are the sharpest and most universal radio waves that flash through space. The aliens will reason that if earthlings are bright enough to have an electronic technology, they will know about the 21-cm. waves and will tune to them...
...Moslems, Arab leaders often seem more interested in bemoaning lost glories and nursing old grudges than in attacking the problems of the day. Last week Pakistan's Moslem President Mohammed Ayub Khan arrived in Cairo and throwing away a diplomatically phrased set speech, delivered the sharpest criticisms of Moslems by a Moslem heard in many a year...