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...achievement this way: "A poor farm boy by birth, an engineer by profession and a passionate apostle of black self-help by virtue of his own experience, Evans has accomplished the remarkable feat by searching the back country of the Deep South for dirt-poor but talented black high-school students who were unaware that institutions like Harvard, Dartmouth and Amherst are urgently seeking youngsters precisely like them...
...reasons behind the new high-school approach to Expos is a lack of money. If all Expos classes are the same, the reasoning goes, they'll also all be the same size--so the Expos program will no longer include huge, popular classes as well as small ones. That will make the lack of money for teachers' salaries less obvious--but it won't eliminate...
...precision. Still blindfolded, the editor was driven from his second night's lodging-which he thought was "an out-of-state motel"-toward Atlanta. At intervals, the kidnapers stopped to make telephone calls-once to find a go-between, who turned out to be a 17-year-old high-school senior named Pam Grant, another time to let a friend of Minter's hear Murphy's voice...
...backcourt players. When Steve Selinger lacked zest and the offensive patterns turned mechanically over and over the first night, Sanders inserted Mike Griffin. The six-foot ragdoll rose to the performance, scrapping on defense and pinpointing passes on the break. Twenty-four hours later, as expected, Selinger, the babyface high-school All-American from Wilton, Conn., came on with long-range jumpers, steals and hustling interceptions that said: "Coach, give me back my delegated position...
...fall is upon China. But there are other sights and sounds that do. On a typical November morning, the city's hordes of bicyclists are likely to be disturbed by trucks roaring out into the suburbs with gongs clanging and crimson banners flying. The trucks are full of high-school graduates who are being sent out for two years' manual work in the countryside "to learn from the peasants," in accordance with a Mao Tse-tung instruction first given in 1968 during the Cultural Revolution...