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...Harvard can sit back and say, ‘We can do this because we’re Harvard.’” says Stuart Clutterbuck, a guidance counselor at Bergen County Academies, a top magnet high school in New Jersey. He speculates that high school students would be unlikely to accept a one-year deferral at a less prestigious institution...
...Stuart Clutterbuck, a guidance counselor at Bergen County Academies in N.J., said that though he recommends applying to a maximum of ten schools, he did not discourage students who applied to as many as 18 this year...
Lovell speculates reasonably, though conventionally, that much of Markham's adult adventuring was an attempt to find a man as admirable as her father. He was an English ex-army officer named Charles Baldwin Clutterbuck, who, separated from his wife, reared Beryl in Kenya when she was a child. It was from him that she learned horses and an extreme form of self-reliance...
Besides hurdling some personal obstacles, Clutterbuck overcame many business handicaps peculiar to Latin America. Six years ago a discharged worker shot him in the face, leaving him with a twitchlike scar. Late in 1961, when many other Argentine businessmen were spending wildly in a euphoric inflation, Clutterbuck and a few top executives sensed political turmoil ahead and started retrenching. They gradually laid off 1,500 workers and cut back terms for installment-plan sales from two years to a year or less. All this deflated volume, but helped to preserve profits...
...oriented union, pushing for wage increases, led a slowdown that temporarily reduced automobile output from 36 cars to four cars a day. But retrenchment has left SIAM lithe and ready for fresh expansion. With the philosophy of a patriot who feels that Argentina has only one way to go, Clutterbuck says: "My country is at the bottom of the hill. Now we start to climb the other side...