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...Even as an Esalen dropout back in New York, Miller could find no solace or direction. Eventually he forced himself to write down a few simple resolutions. Among them: try to smile at others; be nice to your mother and father; treat women as people...
...onto the fringe of the 18th green, he putted to within 18 in. of the cup and holed out a birdie four to win with four consecutive sub-par rounds: 69, 70, 69 and 70. In the short span of one month, Lee Buck Trevino?Mexican-American, grade-school dropout, ex-Marine sergeant and all-round hustler?had become the first golfer in history to win the British, Canadian and U.S. Opens in the same year. "Now," he cried, "maybe they'll consider me a good international player...
...original hippie. Ignoring those famous words about taking no thought for earthly goods and considering the lilies of the field ("They toil not, neither do they spin"), Graham insisted to his Second Chicago Crusade audience that Jesus "worked hard with his hands, and he was certainly not a dropout." As for the popular rock opera, Jesus Christ, Superstar: "It lacks a clear, compelling testimony of Scripture to the person of Jesus Christ," said Billy. "Over and over, a chorus asks, 'Who are you?' and the opera does not supply the answer...
ALTHOUGH his father was a professor in international law and his uncle was a distinguished chemist, Kistiakowsky was just a high school dropout who never even started his senior year. He enrolled in the University of Berlin, and in the confusion of post-war university regulations, he was able to complete both college and graduate work in three and one-half years. So he ended up with...
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...