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Upward Bound is the federal antipoverty program's teen-age counterpart of the preschool Head Start program. Now two years old, it has taken 20,000 high school students whose grades failed to match their ability, sent them to 220 college campuses for summertime remedial work in an attempt to prepare more children from low-income families for a college education. One survey of the 1965 summer group shows that 80% did enter college and only 23% failed to finish their first year-roughly the average freshman-class dropout rate. The program, says the Office of Economic Opportunity...
...SUNDAY NIGHT MOVIE (ABC, 9 p.m.-12:30 a.m.). Marlon Brando, the sensitive German lieutenant, and Montgomery Clift, his American counterpart, portray The Young Lions (1958), whose paths fatefully and fatally cross during World...
...nonetheless has deprived a maturing Canada of what John Porter calls a "myth proclaiming a Utopia against which, periodically, progress can be measured. In the U.S. there is a Utopian image which slowly over time bends intractable social patterns in the direction of equality, but a Canadian counterpart is difficult to find...
...work, you can get money") than competitors charged that he was turning his bank into an undignified "hock shop." They jeered that before long he would be fleeced out of business. Tonello insisted that "the Italian man on the street is as good a credit risk as his counterpart in London and New York...
...Harvard sailing team won one regatta and came in seventh in another but its Radcliffe counterpart came through the weekend untarnished and with the Powder Puff Trophy...