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...student's essay in quantitative terms. They merely scan the essay, underline the cepts, assign a numerical value to each, and tot them up. Other teachers never admit they are even aware of cepts-but tacitly use them anyway in grading. Superlative ceptsmanship amounts to a canny duel between teacher and student...
...visited every single one of Peru's 144 provinces, something no other politician could say. He promised lower food prices, farm machines, low-interest loans "for the welfare of the common man." His enemies tried to shout him down. One morning in 1957, he fought a clanging saber duel atop a Lima airport building with a Congressman who had called him a "demagogue and conscious liar" (both were slightly nicked). A year later, his wife left him for another man. and the scandal rocked Lima. Belaúnde won a legal separation, was awarded custody of their three children...
...Killing Duel. For last week's Continental, Ford turned two prototype GTs over to Carroll Shelby, the brash Texan who designed the Ford-powered Cobra, a solid contender in production-class races last year. Shelby spent 1,000 hours preparing for the race, figuring gear and axle ratios, tuning engines, using computers to help adjust the suspension to the track conditions at Florida's Daytona International Speedway. In the time trials, Mexico's Pedro Rodriguez won the pole position by clocking 113.7 m.p.h. in his V12 Ferrari prototype, and Shelby decided he needed a little strategy...
...World War II, and now have no fewer than 450 women's teams. Besides, beating an Australian at anything is a considerable chore. For five innings of the final game, Australia's Lorraine Woolley and the U.S.'s Donna Lo Piano toiled through a scoreless pitching duel. The Aussies had a bit of a scare in the fifth when a U.S. lass tripled, but tight defensive play left her stranded on third. Then in the sixth, Australia's Eleanor McKenzie doubled. A pretty secretary from Ashburton, Victoria, Eleanor got her start playing cricket with the boys...
...Russia's Igor Ter-Ovanesyan, 26: the broad jump at the Golden Gate Invitational track meet, beating the U.S.'s Ralph Boston in the rubber match of their winter duel; at San Francisco. In two previous meets, each had won once, and the total margin between them was ¼ in. This time Ter-Ovanesyan leaped 26 ft. 4 in., beat Boston...