Word: cal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Robes. Lowell came early to his vocation. He was a fifth-form schoolboy at St. Marks, the prestigious Episcopal prep school in Southborough, Mass., when he received his calling. Awkward, myopic, shy, dull in class except in history, he shambled about the sham Tudor buildings. His friends called him "Cal," after Caligula, because he was so uncouth; he liked that, and today is still known as Cal. His nature became clear to classmates after he started reading commentaries on the Iliad and Dante's Inferno. As his roommate, Artist Frank Parker, recalls: "The point was that you could...
...could make your own destiny. That became Cal's text...
...brush into jungle salad. Brown "popped smoke"-yellow signal grenades-to bring in the choppers, and while hovering Huey gunships laced the weeds with rockets and .50-cal. bullets, Team Two made its getaway, mission accomplished...
...probation, and others regard the program with ghetto-bred cynicism. One of the brightest, but most belligerent white boys, calls the project "kindergarten for grown-up kiddies-Mouseketeer meetings, all that conforming jazz." He says he wants to make it "on my own," hopes to transfer to Southern Cal. Youths from the Negro ghettos have had the roughest time adjusting, partly because nearly all-white Bellingham is strange to them. Concedes one faculty adviser: "Bellingham at night, when the time comes for recreation, is no place for a Negro...
...Gulf Oil 341,884 17,094,000 Standard Oil (N.J.) 223,523 15,3667,000 Eastman Kodak 117,756 15,132,000 Middle South Utilities 542,114 13,621,000 Ford Motor 293,076 13,298,000 AT&T 210,688 11,588,000 Standard Oil (Cal...