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Foxy Problems. Many a schoolman argues that essay exams still measure knowledge-not to mention self-expression-better than multiple-choice tests, especially in English. But E.T.S. President Henry Chauncey, 59, a onetime associate dean at Harvard who has headed the organization since its birth, disputes even that contention. He argues that foxy problems involving sentence structure or correcting grammatical deficiencies are as good a test of writing ability as writing itself...
...engine. "Damn," said one U.S. yachtsman, "why did the British have to come up with a boat like this?" But Constellation had barely crossed the finish line when Australia's Sir Frank Packer, whose Gretel made a fair show of it in 1962, handed an envelope to Commodore Chauncey Stillman of the New York Yacht Club. "I know what's in it," said Stillman, and so did everybody else-a new challenge...
...graduates in the freshman class clearly outnumber those from prep schools, 536 to 501. A recent report showed that of the top executives of the 750 largest corporations in the U.S., Yale produced nearly twice as many as any other school. But Brewster's special assistant, Henry ("Sam") Chauncey Jr., 28 (himself a descendant of Yale's first graduate and Harvard's second president), is determined to "go out and sell Yale as more than a rich man's institution." In pursuit of creative brains, which often test out poorly on college entrance exams, seven fulltime...
Chum Steele '65 and Belmar Gunderson of St. Paul, Minn., won the National. Indoor Mixed Doubles Tournament at Long-wood yesterday, defeating Steele's father, Chauncey Steele, Jr., and Carol Wright...
Moving from foreign trade to foreign relations, Khrushchev pulled out all the "peaceful coexistence" clichés, lost his aplomb (but not his temper) only when Chauncey W. Cook, president of General Foods, asked "Why is it necessary to build a Berlin Wall and shoot people down if they try to get over...