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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Question: "Did you make good grades?" Answer: "Well, I believe I was relatively close to the dean's list part of the time." Question: "Could you estimate where you stood in your class from the top or the bottom?" Answer: "No, sir, I never checked on that." Fulbright, Rhodes scholar and onetime president of his alma mater, the University of Arkansas, was incredulous. Asked he: "You weren't interested in trying to learn?" (In fact, Yale does not rank its students...
...terms of raw, do-it-or-else power, the impact of the Texas-Missouri compact may be close to zero. But in a skintight convention, the Truman-Rayburn party prestige and know-how just might make the difference...
Minimum price the West was prepared to accept for going on to the summit was at least provisional Russian agreement to respect the present status of West Berlin. There were signs that the Russians might be willing. Fortnight ago Gromyko, in private conversation with Herter, came close to disavowing the May 27 deadline for Western evacuation of Berlin set by Khrushchev last November. And from Moscow last week came a pointed announcement that Nikita himself planned to be away in Albania on deadline...
...James R. Slagle, 25, of Brooklyn, has been blind since his freshman year in high school. A graduate of St. John's University, he is close to a doctor's degree in advanced mathematics at M.I.T., where his grades average 4.9 out of a possible 5. In his spare time Student Slagle works as a staff mathematician at M.I.T.'s famed Lincoln Laboratory. ¶ Robert J. Winn Jr., 23, of Dallas, began to lose his vision at the age of six. He is about to receive a B.S. at North Texas State College, has had eleven...
...York subway is clearly out of his depth. He boards it bearing a pretty bunch of posies and a confident smile; both disappear as the subway doors close on the posies. It takes him forever to figure out on which side of the train the doors will open next, and when he does, he is sandbagged by a horde of inrushing travelers. By the time the train clears and he can escape, he has fallen asleep on his feet...