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...attended Dartmouth, worked for Eugene McCarthy's presidential campaign and later as a reporter for the Boston Globe. Ned Krutsky is a strong, silent type who got his education at a small Quaker college and a house in Haight-Ashbury. Jim Locke, son of a lawyer and a college dropout, built his first house from a "hippy-dippy how-to-do-it book...
Coelho complied, and he was far from the only dropout. Though the council had counted more than 40 elected officials as potential participants at the start of last week, only 23 would let their names be included in a formal list of members that the group issued a few days later. At week's end Robb, Jim Blanchard of Michigan, and Bruce Babbitt of Arizona were the only Governors remaining of ten whose names had appeared on preliminary lists (among the dropouts: Bob Graham of Florida, Bill Clinton of Arkansas, Richard Lamm of Colorado). Ohio Congresswoman Mary Rose Oakar announced...
...University of Minnesota dropout, Jacobs started working full time in 1959 for his father, a Russian immigrant, who ran a gunnysack business. In the mid-'60s the company flourished, selling sandbags used to dam floods along the Mississippi. Jacobs early showed a trader's instinct, buying merchandise at business liquidation sales and reselling it. At 18, he got 300 pairs of skis at a U.S. Customs auction for $13 a pair, then sold them right outside the auction hall for three times as much...
...population had dwindled from 5,000 in the 1880s to 500 in the late 1960s, when political activists and dropouts looking for a Rocky Mountain high started moving in. Native Elvira Wunderlich, 70, remembers the hippies as "just a bunch of trust funders and freeloaders." But the newcomers brought along their political savvy and quickly commandeered the town council from the locals, known as the elks (because of their frequent meetings at the Elks Club). Says former Mayor Jerry Rosenfeld, 44, a Denver dropout from the Eugene McCarthy campaign: "We were going to build a utopia here...
...melt from students who keep their options open by accepting places at several colleges. Some deans underestimated the number who would actually come. "The ghosts showed up," says Middlebury's associate admissions director, Herbert Dalton. In addition, at some schools fewer upperclassmen are leaving to make room. The dropout may be fading out. In today's tough job market, observes Dartmouth Admissions Director Richard Jaeger, "there seems to be a growing sense of urgency to start college and stay in college...