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STUDENT: Sir, I can't tell you how pleased I am. I mean, my high school average is 65, I got straight Ds in mathematics, confuse the Norman Conquest with Dday, have a sub-average IQ, and got turned down by every other college in America. Yet in spite of all of this, you've accepted...
...last week after a teacher tried to defend his right to fail as many midshipmen as he deemed deficient in scholarship. Though flunk quotas are larger in the lower classes, Annapolis is thus stuck with a grade system that encourages students to coast. Moreover, not only Fs but also Ds are frowned on, and grades are regularly inflated to achieve C averages-all, says an academy spokesman, because of the "practical necessity of graduating reasonable numbers of naval officers...
...means that "my talents lie rather in making coffee," but he offers "room with piano, stands, refreshment and car parking." Still, there are drawbacks to being a less-than-A performer. Explains Carleen Hutchins (viola-D), a Montclair, N.J., housewife who makes violas in her spare time: "We Ds don't often get calls; we have to do the calling...
...Works of Peace. Johnson spoke at length about economic aid in South Viet Nam-the third of the "three Ds" in his policy of determination, discussions and development. The U.S., he said, has pumped $2 billion into the country since 1954. "With our help," he declared, "South Viet Nam has already doubled its rice production. We have already helped vaccinate over 7,000,000 people against cholera and millions more against other diseases. More than a quarter-million young Vietnamese can now learn in more than 4,000 classrooms that America has helped to build; and 2,000 more schools...
Down to the Ds. The tryout was a washout. After three days, the Twins offered him-free-to the National League's Houston Colts. The Colts turned him down too. At that, Oliva went to visit a buddy who was playing for the Charlotte, N.C., Hornets-a Twins farm club. The Hornets didn't want him either. Out of charity, the general manager got Tony a berth on the Wytheville, Va., Twins, a Class D team in the Appalachian Rookie League. And all of a sudden Tony started hitting baseballs with his unconnected swing...