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Early in life Mortimer displayed his urge to excel. He got top marks in school, became captain of his high school swimming team. When he went to the University of Virginia, he knew what he wanted. "I said to myself I wanted to be Phi Beta Kappa," he recalls. A lawyer who was a fellow student of Caplin's remembers how hard he ran: "Almost from the first day, we knew Morty would be first in the class. Nobody was willing, or had the energy, to compete with...
...ranged from 5% to 41% lower than those of such competing U.S. giants as Allis-Chalmers and Newport News Shipbuilding & Drydock Co. Hitachi, whose sales in the past five years have increased 280% to last year's $1 billion, thus made an important advance in its drive to excel in highly industrialized markets...
...unsophisticated, unfashionable early Christians. Says Jesuit Scholar Daniel J. O'Hanlon: "We can learn from the Pentecostals that the central Christian message must be proclaimed in all its clarity and simplicity." Admits William Elliott, chairman of the Presbyterian Board of World Missions: "We do not feel that they excel us in a theological point of view. But they often shame us in their zeal to proclaim our Lord as they understand...
Every afternoon the juniors spend two hours with the lower-middlers, upper-middlers and seniors on the vast playing fields-a sea of runners, jumpers, kickers. All get a chance to excel at one of 17 sports, if not on a varsity team, then on one of four intramural teams in each sport-the red-shirted Romans, the green Gauls, the grey Greeks, the orange Saxons. Belonging grows as the morning teacher turns afternoon coach, yelling, "Tail down, Jones!" It mounts in a delirious rally before the Exeter game, and if victory comes, in a yowling torchlight parade and huge...
...turn. Whatever he wants, I'm. going to see he gets it." What Ted wanted was the Senate. He wanted it as a measure of proof that he could hold his own as a Kennedy. For Ted was the kid brother, and he had to excel to survive in a family where life is a constant contest and victory the only goal...