Word: em
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Foremost, naturally, was Vic Gatto. Everyone agreed he was great and that was that. "Gary Strandemo's going to do something for us," the coach remarked. "He's different from Choquette (Tom, his predecessor at fullback); he doesn't knock'em down, but he runs to daylight well and has good hands...
...built a like-minded organization of which he proudly says: "There may be as many as 200 problems a month, but we hit 'em all in two days." To keep on hitting them, he has gone so far as to distribute footballs to his top executives with badges inscribed "Carry the ball." Geneen makes no apology for what he considers to be the be-all and the end-all of corporate existence: profits. In fact, his avowed ambition when he took over ITT was to double profits every five years; he was on schedule...
Aaron d'Aragon, a 15-year-old boy gang leader, is doomed on arrival at the Golden Gate Institute of Industry & Reform, a prison farm for adolescents. There, status is based on ability to humiliate weaker kids by sexual assault. A buddy warns Aaron: "They beat 'em up first, and then gang bang 'em, man! Make queens of 'em forever." Aaron is duly raped by a giant Negro senior citizen of this very bad boys' town. No queen, though, Aaron gets revenge by putting rat poison in the clam chowder. Unfortunately, he kills his best...
...tell-'em-and-test-'em" process, Holt claims, not only induces fear and discourages experimentation but leads to a concentration on answers rather than problems-and it is "dishonest and the students know it." Teachers coach the kids for the tests and care more about "the appearance" of knowledge than for real understanding. "What would happen," Holt asks, "at Harvard or Yale if a prof gave a surprise test in March on work covered in October? Everyone knows what would happen; that's why they don't do it." In this "temple of worship for right...
...least 12,000 meters of swimming a day, six days a week. All she had to shoot at last week were her own monthold world records in the 400-meter free style (4 min. 32.6 sec.) and the 1,500-meter freestyle (18 min. 11.1 sec.). She shot 'em dead. First, she lopped 3.6 sec. off her 400-meter mark. Then, to the utter astonishment of everybody but herself, she churned through the 1,500 meters in an incredible 17 min. 50.2 sec.-20.9 sec. faster than any other woman has ever swum that distance. Was she proud...