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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Another future leader of the world chose a less costly method. He doodled away in his notebook for three hours at his morning exam, then sped back to his room where he recorded the correct answers in another booklet. At 6 p.m. he sneaked back into the exam room with the booklet, stepped on it repeatedly, and left it on the floor for the janitor to find and return to the graders...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: With Elegant Methods of Deception Harvard Cheaters Beat The System | 1/27/1965 | See Source »

...around, keeping the rabbit just ahead of the pup. He gets real anxious, and finally you let him catch the rabbit." Next, the dog graduates to chasing a plastic bunny -like Swifty, the mechanical rabbit at the track. Bad habits show up early, and they are often impossible to correct. The classic case is a greyhound named Terris Foot, who competed in hurdle races and always led the pack up to the final jump-where he always fell down. His handler decided to try him in a flat race. Terris Foot kept right on jumping, and when he reached...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dog Racing: Down the Straight at 40 m.p.h. | 1/22/1965 | See Source »

...Blaine's stature, were he to state his views less equivocally, could help greatly in creating a climate of opinion that would lead to changing of the law. Knowledgeable people honestly concerned with the welfare of students should speak out clearly to correct the public misconceptions which are causing the present situation. This would be more constructive and more honest than for everyone to continue pretending to believe in the official myth that pot is bad. R.J. Solomonoff

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Blaine and Marijuana | 1/21/1965 | See Source »

...This is only a guess, yet such a figure seems a bit high considering that there are only four or five people working in the Charter Flight Agency, according to Lawrence Robertson. If I have guessed wrong, I hope that HSA will promptly and explicitly correct me. John Polacheck...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ANTI-TRUST | 1/20/1965 | See Source »

...statements. The way I was quoted makes my statement appear both unclear and misleading, as if I had suggested that subcultures can be best described by four letter words or that all subcultures are characterized by the use of such. Neither of these suggestions would have been correct or relevant and I did not make either of them. Paul Hollander Assistant Professor of Sociology

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FOUR LETTER WORDS | 1/18/1965 | See Source »

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