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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...

Author: By Julie M. Zauzmer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Z-Listed Students Experience Year Off | 3/30/2010 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Julie M. Zauzmer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Applications Up at Top Universities | 2/2/2010 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Force Of Nature STRAIGHT ON TILL MORNING: THE BIOGRAPHY OF BERYL MARKHAM | 10/5/1987 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Latin America: Argentina's Nimble Giant | 4/19/1963 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Latin America: Argentina's Nimble Giant | 4/19/1963 | See Source »

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