Graduate Student Dormitory

LOCAL RESIDENCE 15 Graduate student dormitory, Caltech ... 

At noon, we took an hour off for limch. Art always went his own way. John had brought his lunch and went across the street to Tournament Park, to toss soft balls as practice. I had a quick lunch at the Greasy Spoon on the ground floor of the graduate student dormitory. I sat on the far stool at the counter, so that no one could sit next to me and disturb my thoughts I had my security clearance. The uncertainty was over. This was my happy day. I boasted to myself, I did it. I hit the jackpot twice, I got in at Caltech and now I really have this exciting, important war research. ... 

Figure 2.1. shows four Caltech graduate students in the fall of 1941 racing on Lagima Beach John Hays, James F. Mead, Richard Newton Lewis, and Andy Benson. Andy Benson lived in the old graduate student dormitory for the first two quarters of the school year, as did I. 

FDA-speak Until recently the term product failure was used, even if for a perfectly good product the deviation was traceable to a mistake in adding up some numbers in the lab. This is as preposterously strict as not graduating any student who ever forgot to switch off the dormitory light. 

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