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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Munro added that Bogovich "is turning into more of a team player; he is beginning to shoot less often and pass more." And this is one factor accounting for the drop in Bogovich's scoring output since the opener against Tufts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Soph Soccer Star Peter Bogovich Begins Varsity Career in Fine Form | 10/26/1968 | See Source »

...book is filled with comic scenes, acute insights and memorable characters -among them a salesman named Mr. Blue, who will perform 50 push-ups at the drop of a hint. The narrative ramblings, like a drunk's broken-field running, occasionally lose the reader in a muddiness of form. But they are part of the mad scramble that eventually makes Exley the winner his protagonist was so desperate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Man on the Sidelines | 10/25/1968 | See Source »

...stiff or costs that are too high for most D.C. students--over 90 percent of whom are black and most of whom are poor. And, added to the number who don't go on to college is the large group of people (about 25 percent of each class) that drop out before high school graduation...

Author: By Andrew Jamison, | Title: Community College for the Capital | 10/19/1968 | See Source »

...nearest thing to a Doer's school is probably the Peace Corps, which deliberately sets out to instill self-confidence and self-sufficiency in its volunteers. It demands performances that the trainee may not have suspected he had in him. "We may drop a person with almost no money in some community," says Robert MacAlister, director of staff training, "and tell him to hack it for three or four days. We try to get people to realize their potential The operating principle is basically that a person can do anything he believes he can do." No gauge exists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE POWERLESS | 10/18/1968 | See Source »

Helmsing asked that the editors of the paper "change their misguided and evil policy" or at the very least "drop the term Catholic from the masthead." Shaken by the denunciation, the NCR initially refused to comment. But the writers criticized by Helmsing were less reticent. Said Callahan: "Whether my statements are heretical is a judgment for the future rather than for the emotional response of one bishop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Roman Catholics: Platform for Heretics | 10/18/1968 | See Source »

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