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...tale to tell. In 1939, when Marcos was a stripling of 22, he was tried and convicted of the murder of Julio Nalundasan, a political foe of his father's, who was shot dead one evening while brushing his teeth. A brilliant law student who passed his bar exam with the highest grade in the country, Marcos successfully appealed his case to the Supreme Court. During World War II, he led a hard-hitting guerrilla campaign against the Japanese and, at war's end, emerged with 27 U.S. and Filipino medals and citations...
...traditional tension-buster during January and June reading and exam periods, the Bogey festival was introduced to work its same magic at the Summer School about three years ago. But it just didn't seem to catch...
...middle-aged men and women, found most in poor physical shape. "Those who scored higher in tests of strength and endurance," says he, "showed a better balance of blood distribution and superior blood flow." From protruding abdomens to breathlessness after slight exertion-unless a physician's careful exam rules it out-Cureton's antidote is exercise...
Many Germans are now also questioning the basic structure of the system. Like most European countries, Germany separates its young by exam at an early age (ten), sending the brightest through the rigorous, classics-oriented Gymnasium and on to the university; the rest attend the Mittelschule or the less exacting Volkschule, both roughly equivalent to American junior high schools. Currently, less than 7% of German youths enter the Gymnasium; in France, by comparison, almost 13% attend the equivalent lycée. Many wonder whether so small a number of high-level graduates can provide the intellectual skills to keep Germany...
...track team, undefeated in dualmeet competition, won the Heps in a runaway and took third place in the ICIA Games--the Eastern championship--although only eight runners could make the trip in mid-exam period...