Word: dropouts
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...father recently proved that people are not as old as they look or as old as their birth certificates say. My father is 51, and he received his bachelor's degree from Harvard in June after spending a whole year there as a senior. (He was a dropout during the Depression.) I think this is a good example for all those middle-aged people who use their age as an excuse for not doing the things they'd like...
...even be programmed for Christian redemption, taught to forget in any desired period of time. But until Congress is convinced that adequate safeguards for protecting the individual's privacy are in force, the Budget Bureau is likely to make little headway. "We are all concerned about the dropout of today," said Gallagher. "But I'm interested in the computer reject of tomorrow...
Cliff is a chunky high school dropout whose shirttail flaps in the breeze and whose hair-trigger temper has at one time or another 1) brought him an official reprimand from the U.S. Lawn Tennis Association and 2) cost him a place on the U.S. Davis Cup team. Psychologists would probably trace Cliff's troubles back to his formative years-between twelve and 14-when he played with his sister and "she beat me every time." Says Cliff: "She used to beat me so often that she didn't even want to play me any more...
...Footsie." The G.O.P.'s fresh face belongs to Dempsey's good friend and neighbor E. (for Edmund) Clayton Gengras, 57, chairman of the Security-Connecticut Group and of the Connecticut Co., which runs urban bus lines. A high school dropout, Gengras is a self-made millionaire and self-starting candidate whose first bid for public office took both rank-and-file Republicans and Democrats by surprise. Also surprising was the unanimity mustered at the party convention, which nominated him by acclamation. Though Nutmeg State Republicans have been notorious for factional feuding in recent years, State Republican Chairman...
...drugs. Under the influence of LSD, nonswimmers think they can swim, and others think they can fly. One young man tried to stop a car on Los Angeles' Wilshire Boulevard and was hit and killed. A magazine salesman became convinced that he was the Messiah. A college dropout committed suicide by slashing his arm and bleeding to death in a field of lilies. Says Los Angeles Psychiatrist Sidney Cohen, one of the country's leading LSD experts: "If we can tolerate unsupervised use of LSD, why not Russian roulette? Or why not let children play with hand grenades...