Word: dropouts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Smart Dropouts. Both schools have belatedly become bothered by high dropout rates. About one-third of Caltech's and one-fifth of M.I.T.'s frosh do not stay for four years, which implies that if such smart kids do not make it, something must be wrong with the teaching. To help freshmen adjust to the competition, Caltech now issues only "pass" or "fail" grades the first year. M.I.T., tired of the student refrain that "Tech is hell," has similarly loosened its freshman and sophomore course load, broken up its long-standard curriculum. "In the past, if a fellow...
...knocking around the fringes of folk music separately for a few lean years, they joined forces in 1965 and made their first single, California Dreamin'. It went straight to the top of the bestseller charts, as did their next release, Monday, Monday. Papa John Phillips, 25, an Annapolis dropout, is the group's songsmith, and what his lyrics lack in depth his melodies make up in lilting appeal. Phillips' wife Michelle, a willowy ex-model, is the spiraling soprano; Denny Doherty, 24, sings a secure tenor. Anchor girl is rotund (200 lbs.) Cass Elliot, 23, whose ringing...
Godard's latest installment, subtitled The Children of Marx and Coca-Cola, is a cubistic jigsaw-puzzle picture of the go-go generation. In his usual abrupt abstract style, Godard scatters the screen with dissociated pieces of plot: a Marx-marked high school dropout (Jean-Pierre Leaud) meets and mates a Coke-stoked rock-'n'-roll belter (Chantal Goya), but not long after dies in an absurd accident, leaving the girl to face an amateur abortion performed with a curtain rod. The puzzle is further complicated by irrelevancies: switchblade suicide, lesbian interlude, subway murder, movie within...
...atmosphere. But as man launches more and more satellites and probes-the Japanese are scheduled to loft their first satellite this week-the danger, however small, will obviously increase. The U.N. conferees have agreed that the launching nation should be liable for any damage inflicted by a satellite dropout, and both Russia and the U.S. have promised to accept liability without the customary court showing of negligence. In a related issue, they agreed that any downed astronauts should be treated as "envoys of mankind" and promptly returned to the nation that launched them...
...kickoff-return specialist is a refugee from Toronto in the Canadian League. The cornerback was dismissed as "a troublemaker" by the Washington Redskins; the flanker was cut by the New York Giants be cause he refused to shave off his long sideburns. The quarterback is a college dropout with one good leg and a con suming interest in "golf and girls, but mostly girls." Who are they? Who else...