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Songstress Wright had done some singing in her high-school choir, but nothing like this. She threw herself into Raincoat like a pro, clipped out one or two phrases with the sting of an Eartha Kitt, brooded most of the time in very womanly tones indeed. The song caught on quickly in Canada and crossed the border (on the Unique label). Last week it was making news as a potential bestseller...
...Naval Reserve Officers' Training programs include both college and non-college men. By applying to the Chief of Naval Personnel before Nov. 15 of his senior year, a high-school senior can become a candidate under the Holloway Plan, which is designed to train officers for the Navy and Marine Corps as a supplement to Annapolis. Of the 23,000 who applied last November, only 1,800 students and 200 men from the fleet were accepted. These men get $50 a month during school term and midshipmen's pay on summer cruises...
...Says A. A. Potter, engineering dean emeritus of Purdue: "I've talked to high-school counselors no more than three weeks ago, and that BLS report was still in their minds." High-school training is another cause of the shortage. Training in the sciences and higher mathematics should begin no later than the junior year in high school. But in the last 50 years, the proportion of high-school students studying algebra has dropped from 50% to 20%, physics from 20% to 4%. Says University of Illinois Engineering Dean William Everitt: "We can't teach these boys algebra...
...attainment of its major objectives. The largest single portion of the Fund's resources has been concentrated on the problem of improving the quality of teaching in secondary schools and colleges. Through two fellowship programs, the Fund has sponsored year-long leaves for more than 1200 selected high-school and college teachers, in order to encourage them to broaden their own knowledge and teaching experience...
Typical of this naivete is Mike Mann's story of a high-school tennis player and his girl. Mann withholds few details of malt-shop and classroom courtship and consequently manages to portray a few scenes and feelings in high school life rather accurately. Mann's autobiography, however, begins to drool a little at the mouth; if he had left out much of the diary-writing at the end, he might have seemed much less involved and his story might have had more punch...