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...fund has experimented with putting master teachers on TV for the benefit of a whole school system. It has persuaded some colleges to take in bright high-school students before graduation and to give others advance standing after high-school graduation. It has also been a major catalyst in beefing up the standards of the public-school curriculum...
...fanned the thin flame of poetry down on the farm. He is helped by the fact that the university gives advanced degrees-including a doctorate-in creative writing. Armed with this selling point, Engle recruits fledgling poets with the zeal of a Big Ten football coach wooing a high-school halfback. He gets them jobs on campus, finds them apartments, has even supplied pots and pans for their wives...
...even to cooperate in keeping it going, complains the American Association of College Baseball Coaches. On the contrary, says the association, "the overwhelming evidence indicates that professional baseball is more interested in retarding the growth and development of the college game." Big-league scouts wave fat bonuses at high-school stars who might otherwise be tempted to take advantage of an athletic scholarship. College crowds, already dwindling for lack of talent in the field, stay home on spring afternoons to watch major-league television. Sooner or later, all the troubles of the college game are blamed on the big leagues...
...Competing for the last time as a high-school student, Jim Brewer, 18, of Phoenix, Ariz, made the most of his springy new Fiberglas vaulting pole, pushed himself over the bar at 15 ft. 1½ in. Trying for 15 ft. 1½ in., Brewer knocked down not only the bar but both standards as well, quit for the afternoon, satisfied with his record as the first U.S. schoolboy ever to pole vault...
...limits for its on-the-job training classes, opened them to all employees who meet the aptitude requirements. Other industries in many areas are making a direct attack on the idea that only the backward go into vocational training. In Cleveland the big machine-tool makers rush the high-school graduating classes for candidates for their training programs with all the fervor used for seniors in engineering colleges. In Fort Worth Convair hires high-school graduates to work half a day and spend the other half, with pay, attending college-level technical and engineering classes to get credit toward college...