Word: dropout
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Thanks to his vocal and vehement advocacy of civil rights for his fellow blacks, Georgia State Legislator Julian Bond has earned ten honorary degrees in the past three years. Not bad for a 1961 dropout from Atlanta's Morehouse College. Last week, though, after completing a long-overdue term paper on the crisis in education, Bond became a 31-year-old college graduate and happily collected the most prized degree of all: his own, a B.A. from Morehouse in English...
...state of Georgia. The Southern boom has urbanized and industrialized Georgia more quickly and completely than the rest of the Deep South. Georgia leads the region's indexes of growth and change. However, at the same time, per capita income is only 80% of the national average, the dropout rate the nation's highest, government expenditures for education and social services among the lowest. A rich cast of politicians continues to vie for the state's allegiance...
Renaissance. While imprisoned, Smith transformed himself from an unknown condemned man into a national figure. The onetime dropout honed his extremely high intelligence (IQ: 154) on college correspondence courses, legal texts and a renaissance sampling of books and periodicals. He also struck up a correspondence with Columnist William F. Buckley, who championed his cause in magazine and newspaper articles. Said Buckley of Smith last week: "His harrowing experience has made him wiser, and also a lot of others wiser-certainly myself...
...party afterward, for winners and losers alike. At least two things made this year's ceremony, silly as it always is, a little bit different: the most popular girl ended up winning none of the prizes, and one of the biggest awards of all went to the truculent dropout of the class...
Died. Sherman Mills Fairchild, 74, inventor and industrialist; in Manhattan. A college dropout (Harvard, University of Arizona, Columbia), Fairchild turned a knack for tinkering into an aviation and photographic empire. While at Harvard he invented a primitive flash camera; by 1918 he had developed one of the first between-the-lens shutters for aerial cameras. The need for an aircraft to use his cameras for aerial mapping led him into plane building, and in 1926 the fledgling Fairchild Aviation Corp. introduced the first enclosed-cabin monoplane. During World War II, Fairchild turned out thousands of PT-19 trainers and developed...