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After deceiving students and faculty at the Law School for almost two months, a University of Notre Dame dropout posing as a student has been ordered off campus by University officials...
DIED. Peter Kurd, 80, acclaimed artist of the American Southwest whose paintings, murals and lithographs depicted the sere, light-drenched landscapes and unworldly local personalities of his native New Mexico; of complications of Alzheimer's disease; in Roswell, N. Mex. A West Point dropout who studied with N.C. Wyeth and later married the illustrator's daughter Henriette, also a painter, Kurd was a World War II combat artist for LIFE. During the 1950's and '60s he painted more than a dozen covers for TIME, the most notable being that of President Lyndon Johnson...
Branson is new to the airline business. A school dropout at 15, he started by selling advertising from a phone booth for his own youth-market magazine, Student. Today his bustling $200 million empire includes pop and rock records, videos, discos, film production and retail music outlets...
Sculpted by Daniel Chester French--an MIT dropout who received an honorary Harvard degree in 1917--the statue was brought to Harvard and dedicated in October...
...remark, every intellectual twitch or tic is scrutinized, recorded, analyzed. In the frenzy of political combat, the candidate must improvise crucial strategic moves, keep his facts straight and try to look presidential to boot. Senator John Glenn said he was "perpetually tired" two months before the first primary. Fellow Dropout George McGovern seemed well rested, even twinkly, while he was in the race. Still, he says, "Fatigue is public enemy No. 1. It has become a most serious problem in American politics...