Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Calif., became an All-American meet instead, and the mile race was substituted for a 1,500-meter event. The "rabbits" were Jim's competitors-Richard Romo of Texas, Tom Von Ruden of Oklahoma State, and Wade Bell of Oregon-who got together before the race, agreed to help Ryun by pressing the pace. "It will be interesting," explained Von Ruden, "to see what Ryun can do with a fast pace...
...Radcliffe, for example, have formally permitted student exchange and coordinated their curriculums since 1943. The major growth of consortiums has come within the past five years, as schools both great and small have discovered that the pressure for excellence is forcing them to look beyond their own campuses for help. This has proved particularly true in the field of scientific research: universities have been able to undertake expensive projects together that none of them could have financed alone. In one such coalition, twelve universities stretching from Florida to Texas are currently engaged in a geological exploration of the Gulf...
...hiring of older men flourishes, middle-aged men will be rid of the fear they now legitimately have that being fired, or quitting a job after 40, means a long, scary interlude in limbo before getting rehired. Transitional schools like Lynn Selwyn's Everywoman's Village may help reorient women who see their grown children as their epitaph. The cultural explosion will give more middle-agers secondary interests in the arts, those exciting openers of the mind's eye that keep the human horizon from shriveling...
...details of the crime-until he saw Toman walk into the room. Whereupon he slammed down the receiver in embarrassment. Somehow, Suspect Richard Speck's mother in Dallas got the idea that she was talking to a lawyer hired to defend her son. She gushed information meant to help build his case. The banner headline over Romy's story read FAMILY'S STORY OF SPECK'S LIFE; there was ample detail on Speck's marital problems and his earlier troubles with the police. It was the kind of story that may affect the trial...
...Church, Denmark's national church. Along with separate Sunday services in the towns of Tjaereborg and Sneum, Krogager also works the 41-acre farm where he lives with his wife Gorma, a former actress, and Daughter Kirstine-Louise, 19. Krogager prefers not to ask for a curate to help with the church work in his flourishing parishes. "I am the only pastor in Denmark," he says, "who cannot allow himself to ask for an assistant. They would look at me and say, 'So you're too busy making money...