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...there is nothing much they can do about so many things like radioactive fallout. So today, college students are serious about their careers, and they feel that's about, all they can do." In this sense, students are "more individualistic than anyone would guess," says Amherst Psychologist Robert Birney. "They try to be able to cope with what they can control. They don't worry about what they can't." At Southern Methodist University a discussion group is now engaged in exploring the theme, "I am I." "What this really means," says Coed Annette Robinson...
...pound class Yardling Bob Dennison ran into a Dartmouth light-weight, saved up for the Harvard match, and was pinned in 2:24 of the third period while at 128 Jim Birney, substituting for the injured Indian captain, Bob Bach, decisioned Pete Knox...
...long as Allentown kept marching (it had won 60 straight), there was no argument about which of the 16,000 high-school teams was the nation's best. Coach Jay Birney Crum's champions were no accident; he had simply brought collegiate production-line tactics down to the high-school level...
...Younger." Step A was organizing a farm system. Says Birney Crum: "If you start a boy from scratch in high school, he's ready to graduate just about the time he's learning to play. . . . I get 'em younger." He controls basketball in the city's seven elementary schools, where Crum-trained coaches spot likely kids. Coach Crum is also director of Allentown's 17 summer playgrounds, where basketball courts are standard equipment. "Any time I come across a promising stringbean," says he, "I just naturally bring him along...
...Birney Crum is the most esteemed of Allentown's 96,904 citizens. When his boys copped the Pennsylvania state basketball championship two years ago, the city gave him a $1,000 war bond and a watch. His gift for repeating last year...