Word: denver
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Coolidge Prize for the two speakers on the Harvard team in Harvard-Yale-Princeton Triangular Tournament to Danny J. Boggs of Eliot House and Bowling Green, and James H. McGrew '65, of Quincy and Denver, Colo. Each will relate approximately...
...Regrets. Alan Lubliner, who had been an introverted bookworm with straight-A grades through junior high suddenly blossomed into an articulate leader in Denver's George Washington High. He became editor of the school newspaper, president of the Denver "Youth for Kennedy" organization, and class valedictorian-but his grades slipped just a shade. As a result, Harvard and Cornell passed Alan over "I don't understand it," complained Alan's father, a hard-driving businessman...
...such case involved a Denver student who underwent a metamorphosis junior high and high school. According to Time, he "suddenly blossomed a straight-A introverted bookworm articulate leader:" editor of the paper, president of the city's "Youth Kennedy" organization, and class vale-. "But," the article continues, slipped just a shade. As a Harvard passed him over...
...article makes up for what it lacks in accuracy with colorful quotations from rejected applicants and their parents. "Show this man the scrapbook. Mother," the Denver student's father exclaimed to a Time reporter. "Let him see what kind of a kid it is that Harvard turned down...
...Denver suburb of Greenwood Village (pop. 600), a grand jury has indicted two top officials for running what may be the most brazen traffic-fine racket in the U.S. For six years, charged the jury, Greenwood Village used the public highways as a "personal toll road" that raked in $100,000 for the town by means of "a court scheme that was a sham, a mockery, a fraud and simply a system to exact tribute from unsuspecting motorists...