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...slung racing cars that started managed to last the punishing 500-mile distance. A minor melee on the 19th lap knocked four cars out of the race, sent Driver Jack Turner to the hospital with a broken hip and a cracked toe. An early dropout was the 1961 winner, A.J. Foyt, whose Bowes Seal Fast Special threw a wheel at the 75-mile mark. The early leader, Parnelli Jones-who earned the pole position with a dazzling qualifying speed of 150.370 m.p.h., first time anyone has lapped the 2½-mile track in less than 60 sec.-lost his brakes...
Unlike other junior colleges. Foothill starts students on probation if their high-school average is C or less, and its dropout rate is a hardhearted 40%. On the academic side, Foothill matches the curriculum at four-year colleges; the mam difference is more guidance and smaller classes. Foothill's teaching loads are kept deliberately low, for example, so that teachers can spend more time advising students or poring over their required weekly compositions. As one apparent consequence of such attention, Foothill's transfer students generally get better grades at four-year colleges than those who started out there...
...outstanding individual talents. When Joan Geilfuss, a Pace student, divided her group classes in Charleston, S.C., into teams to liven things up, traditionalists spoke scornfully of her "piano parties." But Joan could scarcely have cared less. Last year not one of her 35 students dropped out, although the estimated dropout rate for children who take up piano playing in the U.S. is over 30% after the first year...
...that U.S. educators hail as new and different is quietly under way in Chicago. Long before Sputnik, Willis began beefing up his curriculum, launched programs for gifted students. He got $500,000 from the Ford Foundation to start junior college TV courses, another $468,500 to tackle the school dropout problem. He has abolished grades-by-age in several elementary schools; this summer he had a 50-man team evaluating 10,000 textbooks and teaching aids for possible...
...problems without legislation, in a peaceful manner. It keeps us out of the trouble other nations have had." A Catholic convert who had to drop out of Detroit's Wayne State University for lack of money, thoughtful Lou Seaton is well able to lecture fellow Wayne dropout Walter Reuther about social justice-whenever the voluble Reuther lets him get a word...