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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...just walking back to his room. He thought he was going crazy, for now he was having one of his dreams in the daytime. He was an earthworm, burrowing through a telephone cord into the receiver: Betty was in the other part of the telephone, and he was getting closer and closer to the receiver there, and something was about to happen-but before it could, he would see pictures, wildly distorted, of his old biology book's photographs of the cells, and the little cells would be swimming around trying to get to the big black one-but then...

Author: By Samuel Bonder, | Title: 'For Betty, With No Hard Feelings' | 9/18/1969 | See Source »

...friend of mine failed a course he had worked his guts out on," one boy recounted. "When I heard, I roared with laughter and the people around me were shocked. They thought I was being spiteful, but really I was happy because now my friend would have to be closer to me. He had been forced to realize-as I already had-that however hard you try, it doesn't make any difference." A Cliffie said, "I wrapped myself in a cocoon and shut out the world-not because I wasn't aware of what was outside, but because...

Author: By Anne DE Saint phalle, | Title: Harvard and Your Head | 9/18/1969 | See Source »

Aptitude is more heavily weighted in public schools because the quality of instruction is slightly lower. But according to Whitla, with each revision of the PRL formula the percentages come closer to identity, "probably because the teaching in public schools is improving...

Author: By Philip Ardery, | Title: PRL: It Is a Secret Number That Predicts Just How Well You Are Supposed to Do Here | 9/18/1969 | See Source »

...week's end, Hanoi Radio announced that a collective leadership "selected and well-trained" by Ho would rule the country, at least for a while. Its members were not named, but these four men are almost certain to be among them: PHAM VAN DONG, the Premier. He was closer to Ho than anyone, although that will not necessarily help him succeed his mentor. Ho called him "my best pupil" and "my other self." Dong's striking face was once compared to "a mask carved for a museum of the revolution, in order to show just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: The Heirs-Apparent | 9/12/1969 | See Source »

...capped their purchases with Bon Marché, France's oldest department store chain, which has 13 outlets with yearly sales of about $80 million. The Willots' offer was $46 million for a 50% interest and control over management. Through the department stores, they say, "we will get closer to the consumer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France: The Bandage Kings | 9/5/1969 | See Source »

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