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...fast becoming a "cramming session" in which the chief dynamic is "quite simply: more." The once lusty word "excellence," writes Harvard Psychologist David C. McClelland, now means only "the ability to take examinations and get good grades in school." As alarmists see it, a strictly academic "meritocracy" is breeding bloodless youngsters with no real joy in life, love or learning...
...three weeks a power struggle had raged over who should inherit the fiefdom of slain Dictator Rafael Trujillo. With so much passion involved, it was surprisingly bloodless. But so long as it was unresolved, the prospects of trouble hung over the Dominican Republic. Backed by a stubborn general strike in the streets, the middle-of-the-road National Civic Union (U.C.N.) demanded the disappearance of the last vestiges of Trujilloism. The two most conspicuous Trujillo vestiges-Armed Forces Boss Pedro Ramón Rodriguez Echaverria and Trujillo's pet President Joaquin Balaguer-as stubbornly resisted vanishing...
...months after his junta took over South Korea in an almost bloodless coup, Lieut. General Park Chung Hee, a puritan in olive drab, is making an unprecedented effort to clean out his country's age-old corruption and laxness...
Last summer, in a tea-party campaign that bored many of the town's complacent oldtimers, the four angry young men managed to get control of the Twin Lakes five-member school board. Pledged to purge the bloodless readers, to replace word recognition with phonetics, Dennis Beula, 33, an accountant, became chairman. Joining him on the board were John J. Collins, 32, a steel salesman; William B. Smeeth. 41, a vice president of a metal-finishing company; and John E. Pfeiffer, 33, president of a business supply company. And when school opened this year, they produced their version...
...short way down the road from the bloodless contests in Harvard Stadium, the Boston Patriots display a zany and often comical brand of football on B.U. Field...