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Here, another thread enters the skein--the Program. True, anyone who had suggested in 1956 that the Program would change the Freshman year should most likely have had his head examined. But it went this way: the Program raised money for three new Houses. By 1960, one and a half were built or building, but the next one was temporarily stalled by a flap over whether Harvard could build on the MTA yards. Bundy and the Masters, convinced that $7 million would be better spent on something besides a new House, started diversionary ploys...
Students who--perhaps from a streak of latent masochism--find it amusing to thread their way through the intricacies of "Rules Relating to College Studies" may have discovered that "all Honors candidates during their last two years may petition to enroll for units of independent studies for ungraded credit.'" Those who make this find should congratulate themselves as perceptive readers; the clause is decently buried under six paragraphs on tutorial for credit and senior theses...
...while, the chairmanship of the Atomic Energy Commission seemed to be the most unpopular top-level job in Washington: the AEC chairman must not only possess considerable administrative ability, along with scientific and technological know-how, but he must also be able to thread his way through highly emotional issues while keeping the U.S. on a straight, or at least a safe, nuclear course...
...more, he falls in a foxhole, finds a bazooka there, turns it on the pursuing tank, destroys it and another one too. Offered a medal, the hero-who is only 19 years old-begs leave instead to go home and see his mother. His journey is the thread on which three luminous episodes are strung...
...when young Michael Marks, a Polish immigrant to England, opened a stall in the marketplace at Leeds, Yorkshire and began selling needles, thread, thimbles, etc. for a penny each, he refused to keep any paper records. Now, 75 years later, his penny bazaars, under his son, Sir Simon Marks, have grown into Marks & Spencer (237 stores), Britain's most prosperous retail chain, with annual sales of $420 million. Despite the chain's size, Sir Simon last week was in the middle of a retailing experiment to see if he could do as his father did-run his vast...