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...lunch and dinner, students will fill in circles on computer cards, indicating their Presidential preference, House affiliation, ethnic backround, and graduation year...
...Ferraro/Zaccaro finance fiasco fades into the backround, it is clear that there is no illegal sleeze here. In fact, throughout the entire ordeal, illegal sleaziness was rarely, if ever, mentioned. But there is no denying that visions of such accusations were at least thought about. Legal sleaze, on the other hand, was suspected in some of Mr. Zaccaro's business affairs, in particular when he borrowed money from an estate as its executor. However, any possibility of guilt was neatly cleared away when a court order forced him to repay the money, and when he was removed as executor...
...future," and books like The Politics of Alternative Technology and Barry Commoner's The Closing Circle occupy his shelves. "What I really would have enjoyed doing in the Air Force is working with satellites or researching solar power," he says. "But my instructor said that even with a strong backround in physics and a Harvard degree there was no guarantee." He adds that the only way he could have stayed in the program without risk of having to work with weapons would have been to switch from a technical to a non-technical (liberal arts) scholarship, none of which were...
...Backround #4; The role of the scriptwriter--Rebel Without A Causeis set in California and is ostensibly about the problems of juvenile delinquents. Dean plays an adolescent, whom his family does not understand, who is driven to various deeds of honor. The entire movie takes place during one 22-hour period--Dean's first day at a new high school. During this day, Dean will have to try to win acceptance into a gang at school and solve the problems of alienation. This is accomplished by driving a car vary fast toward a cliff in a game of chicken with...
...Backround; Dean--Dean wrote shortly before he drove his Porsche into the Ford: "If a choice is in order, I'd rather have people hiss than yawn...