Word: brightest
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...Harvard undergraduate, Mark Roosevelt '78, will be DiCara's campaign manager. Although it is "highly unusual" to have a college student running a campaign, DiCara said yesterday that Roosevelt is "the brightest, hottest piece of political equipment available...
West High's academic offerings are impressive, and the school boasts twelve semifinalists on this year's National Merit Scholarship competition, which singles out the brightest seniors in America. College-bound seniors can elect advanced placement courses, apply to take courses at the university or propose "study projects," in which they can tackle anything from music to horse training. Yet, as at Medford and Coos Bay, the easier route beguiles many. To graduate, students must complete 180 hours of graded coursework, including 45 hours in language arts (which must include nine terms of English), 15 hours in science...
...brightest starts in the Harvard football firmament when Sadow was an undergraduate were Art French and Dave Guaranacca, who played from 1926-29, while the head coach was none other than Horween. French and Guaranacca were known as "the lateral twins" because they excelled in pitching the ball and then throwing it to one other, a technique Sadow says they learned from two Canadian coaches who came to Cambridge to proselytize the forerunner of the multiflex...
Harvard's brightest hopes to break Dartmouth's domination lay at the A level, but a knee injury to Crimson co-captain Bob Wilsterman early in the game dimmed those hopes...
...FIRST TRIP to Saigon in 1962 as a reporter for the New York Times, David Halberstam saw the American effort in Vietnam as a worthwhile endeavor. The war, he says in his notes in The Best and the Brightest, seemed to be a test of two political systems in a political war, and he preferred "our system." Admitting his failure, the failure of the press and many others at the time to see the atrocities the United States government would commit in Southeast Asia, Halberstam arrived at a different conclusion by 1962--that our handling of Vietnam was doomed...