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Thomas F. Pettigrew, professor of Scoiology, pointed to the high dropout rate of subjects interviewed in the study: 60 per cent in the control group and 20 per cent in the METCO group...
...though poor children today drop out during high school rather than at the elementary level. Thus the schools still have the effect of "screening out the poor and sending them back into the cheap labor market." That market, however, has shrunk dramatically over the years, so that while the dropout of 1900 could find work as a laborer, his counterpart of today often cannot...
Michael Crichton, 29-year-old dropout physician and author of the bestselling novel The Andromeda Strain, is unleashing an entertainment epidemic. It is being spread through books and movies, only some of which bear his real name. Regardless of byline and credit, however, the Crichton strain is unmistakable...
Died. Arthur E. Summerfield, 73, Dwight Eisenhower's Postmaster General and campaign manager; of pneumonia; in West Palm Beach, Fla. A ninth-grade dropout, Summerfield built up one of the country's largest Chevrolet dealerships during the Depression. His 1940 Michigan campaign work for Wendell Willkie started his political career; by the 1952 Republican Convention, he was able to deliver a key bloc of delegates to Eisenhower. In return, Summerfield was appointed Eisenhower's campaign manager. Republican National Committee chairman, and finally Postmaster General...
...dropout from Johns Hopkins, Agnew studied law while working at Maryland Casualty Co. in the sprinkler-leakage department. After Army service in the war, he hung out his lawyer's shingle-and starved. Driven to the help wanted ads, he became assistant personnel manager at Schreibers', a Baltimore supermarket chain. Then the Army recalled Agnew and nearly sent him to Korea, although he was a married man in his 30s with three children...