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...auto engines echoed against the foothills of the Rocky Mountains as 23 cars gunned and slid around the $500,000 Continental Divide Raceways near Denver. The competition on the twisty, 2.8-mile circuit was the first endurance race to see how well Detroit's new compact cars stack up against their competition both at home and from abroad...
Dilworth rushed into the dining hall and was just catching the last button on his vest when the Chinese gong sounded, signalling the end of the food-serving period. He cleverly managed to steal a tray as the last stack was being carried away, and hurried along the serving line gathering unto himself everything that was still available. When he reached the end, he surveyed his fortune; and finding everything but the goat's milk unfamiliar, stood frozen near the jelly table in a state of stark amazement...
...think it is necessary for me to go into the reasons why Asia is important," said he. "I am hoping to build a better understanding of the U.S. and good will for us." In New Delhi, India's Premier Nehru keynoted a stack of hail-he's-on-the-way editorials by observing: "We are very happy and look forward to his coming . . . As the border problem is an important problem, I presume it will come up in the course of our discussions...
...thumbed through the stack of forms. "Bureaucracy," he sighed, "bureaucracy." First there was the Fulbright, a green form to be filled out in quadruplicate: Vag was applying for one to Australia--little competition. Then, of course, there was a white Fulbright to be filled out in triplicate; not a real Fulbright at all, he corrected himself, but a Foreign Government Grant. Vag flipped a dime to determine whether it would be the French or German government that would be honored by his request; Franklin Roosevelt came up on top, and France won. "La douce France," he murmured, "nation de destinee...
Student Backgrounds Present Dilemma Faced with a huge stack of applications, and subject to intense pressures from within the College, the Dean of Admissions must maintain a host of balances. Perhaps the most controversial balance is that between students with superior academic preparation, and the less prepared, but no less brilliant "diamonds-in-the-rough" students whose pre-college background has failed to provide an atmosphere of learning...