Word: dropout
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Died. Winthrop Rockefeller, 60, former Governor of Arkansas and second youngest member of the Rockefeller brotherhood that includes Nelson, Governor of New York, and David, chairman of the Chase Manhattan Bank; of cancer; in Palm Springs, Calif. A Yale dropout, Rockefeller was an oilfield roustabout and Army infantryman before settling down after World War II to tend to his share of the family fortunes-and to New York cafe society. When his first marriage to former Showgirl Barbara ("Bobo") Sears went awry in the early '50s, he left New York for the Arkansas hills, built a ranch and gradually...
...attend Edgewood elementary school in a predominantly Mexican-American section of San Antonio. Rodriguez visited the school in 1968 and found that water fountains did not work, bathrooms had no toilet paper, science rooms had no sinks and the library was short of books. Moreover, the school's dropout rate...
...city's white north side, however, schools were better financed. They had lower dropout rates, better equipment, higher teacher pay, athletic stadiums and air conditioning. In short, white students were getting better educational opportunities because their neighborhood could afford to foot the bill, charged Rodriguez...
...second of the Boston area's "hitchhike murders" occurred less than two weeks after Ellen Reich's body was discovered. Sandra Ehramjian was a 21-year-old college dropout who was working as a cab driver and living in a seedy flat near Harvard Square. On Monday, December 27, Ehramjian, according to her ex-roommate, started to hitchhike home to see her parents in East Meadow, N.Y. The next day her body was found in a Brockton park...
However, the Hoving Home, which I help fund, has a remarkable cure rate. The dropout rate after one month is only 10%. And those who graduate do remarkably well. At the present time, 96% of those who have been out over three years are still clean and living constructive lives...