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...Physiologist Bronk set up a small graduate school in 1954, a year after he became president; in 1965 he had Rockefeller retitled from an institute to a university. Resisting the expansionist impulse, Bronk has insisted that R.U. remain small in order to concentrate on "areas where we can really excel." As a result, R.U. "appoints" no more than 30 new students a year out of the 170 candidates recommended for admission by scholars around the world. So conscientious are its standards that R.U. will sometimes turn away an otherwise ideal candidate simply because it feels that he will advance further...
...much smaller world than competitive tennis. Because it lacks prestige, relatively few star althletes play squash seriously. This is much less true in tennis. Gonzalez Sterne, and Terrell generally dominate their opponents in squash. This Spring they must add determination to their racket savvy, if they are to excel on the tennis courts...
...Martin Luther King is "too religious" and Stokely Carmichael is "self-defeating"). Judy is disappointed that the colleges are apparently more interested in her color than her talent. She complains: "It's defeating to find out that after all your years of striving and attempting to excel in school, that it comes down to the issue of your race again-and the de-emphasis of the individual...
Both Davidson and Martin are aiming for a theater life for Los Angeles that will compare with or excel Broadway's best. They've got a good start. By last week, the Taper had virtually sold out its first season with more than 30,000 subscriptions...
...Mary Martyr is a game in which women excel. The participant undertakes all manner of thankless tasks with no sign of complaint, "except for the darkening circles under her eyes," until some kind soul "tries to relieve her of her overload-which ruins everything...