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But, as a group the private schools are academically far superior. Most offer small classes (no more than 20), imaginative teaching and tough competition. Brearley selects its girls for their academic promise rather than social prominence, approaches the excellence of such a boarding school for boys as Andover. Buckley, which...
Out of Sheds. The musicians live in the students' dormitories, which are either converted farm buildings or handsomely modern wood-and-glass structures, or in nearby cottages. Practice time is unlimited, and practice space is a musician's dormitory room, a laboratory, or one of the sheds scattered...
Squarely in the middle of North Philadelphia's Negro ghetto stands a high-walled oasis: Girard College (endowment: $70 million), a 42-acre stretch of green lawns and classic buildings devoted to the free education of 700 "poor, white male orphans." To desegregate Girard has become the consuming passion...
Hair Cuts & Cattle Feed. In its drive for more sales, the gasoline industry is also building hundreds of huge truck stops that cater to practically every need of the drivers. At Wildwood, Fla., Pure Oil has just opened a 23-acre, $550,000-station that includes-in addition to 28...
Day of the Locust. When Jones & Laughlin made its intentions public last April, a stampede of speculators began. Property values soared: the steel company had already doubled the going rate by paying $870 an acre for its site, and nearby Hennepin land soon started attracting bids of up to $5...