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...example is Grosse Point High School's Tony Lott, accepted by Dartmouth, although he scored 470 on the English achievement test. He weighs 202 Ibs. and is a varsity football guard. (He "might" go out for football at Dartmouth.) Walter Empson of Hillcrest High School in Dallas averaged only 600 on the tests, but was president of the student council and a star basketball player. His letter from Princeton was no surprise: "The coach told me some time ago that I was pretty well in." This sort of thing evokes the words of a top Eastern college representative...
...hotel hospitality from Bernard Goldfine. And last week to a TIME reporter he confirmed a rumor that had received considerable currency around Washington: in 1952, Goldfine had advanced Payne $3,500 of the $5.000 needed for down payment on the purchase of Payne's $22,500 home in Hillcrest Heights, Md. The $3,500 came in the form of a loan: it has not been repaid, although Payne says he plans to make the loan good to Goldfine when he sells the house-"or before...
...sweat. To the joy of some and the rage of many, the city council last week voted to allow drilling in some residential areas. With Mayor Norris Poulson's approval yet to come, the council backed dezoning of the city-owned Rancho golf course and the private Hillcrest Country Club near Beverly Hills. Thundered the Los Angeles Examiner, decrying the eagerness of adjacent citizens to lease their lawns and barbecue pits: "Is spoliation of these homes to be forced upon the owners for peanuts per lot in return...
Fuss v. Muss. The Hillcrest Country Club accepts new members only from applicants who filed before Jan. 1, 1952. When the Hillcrest case came before the city council, it met dezoning requirements by having a reported 95% of surrounding homeowners signed up with drillers who would slant-drill from the club's 145-acre golf course. At the same time the councilmen were impressed by the possibility that the city-owned Rancho golf course might be drained of oil by the adjacent movie-lot wells, thus losing potential revenue that could lighten taxes...
...outside, surrounded by twelve acres of brown gravel parking space, on the inside Temple Emanu-el sparkles with stained glass, gold, green and blue mosaic work, and a curtain of shimmering metallic cloth in front of the Ark. The temple, at the intersection of Northwest Highway and Hillcrest Avenue, cost its Reform congregation $2,000,000, stands on one of the most valuable pieces of real estate in the city's bustling northwest...