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...last chance-and perhaps the best instructions on how to seize it came from David Littlejohn, who last year was a Harvard teaching fellow, and is now an assistant professor of English at Stanford. Littlejohn set out to rebut an annual Harvard Crimson piece on how to fool the grader on exams by "use of the vague generality, the artful equivocation, and the overpowering assumption...
...movie script? A sixth-grader's dream of glory? Not at all. Roger Thomas Staubach, 21, Naval Academy midshipman and college quarterback beyond compare, was playing football against Southern Methodist University in Dallas. And as 37,000 bedazzled fans in the Cotton Bowl screamed wildly-for him, against him, or just from the sheer excitement of it-Quarterback Staubach put on a show that even the most jaded pro-football fan would find breathtaking to behold...
...hole in the septum (wall) between the right and left upper chambers of the heart. Surgeon Joe Burge Jr. hooked the ten-year-old up to a heart-lung machine, closed the septal defect and widened the valve. Though still short, Jimmy is now a sturdy fifth-grader...
...them doing "a little better" in school and 41% doing "much better." In Hartford, Conn., 13-year-old Pearley-Mae Sampson has hiked her average from C to B under the guidance of Trinity College Senior Henry Whitney, 21. In Harlem, Tutor Carl Anthony took a seventh-grader with third-grade reading ability and in two weeks helped her to get 90 on a seventh-grade spelling test. Step by step, the kids are getting with it. Countryman & Co. The main force behind N.S.M. is its paid ($50 a _week) director. Peter Countryman, an intense Chicagoan of 21 who normally...
...Students are placing extreme emphasis on differences between two and three points that, to us, are simply not significant," one professor remarked. "We simply can't be as accurate as the system implies," complained a grader...