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...admit that, even if William Scranton had been nominated at San Francisco, he would not have run much better than Goldwater. Right-wing zealots and Midwestern conservatives, foiled for the seventh straight time in as many national conventions, would not have done much for the young Governor from Hotchkiss and Yale. It is conceivable that the Republican candidate might have won fewer electoral votes than Governor George Wallace could have...
...normal school year. The same goal was behind Exeter's SPUR (Special Program for Underprivileged Regions) plan, which brought 20 eighth-grade pupils and four local teachers from Atlanta, St. Louis, Cleveland and Pittsburgh to New Hampshire for classes in Exeter's summer session. Next summer Hotchkiss School, financed by a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation, will play host to 100 high school students who meet the official specifications: "Any boy of intellectual promise from a poor family, with preference to boys from slum neighborhoods, and especially from segregated areas...
...line began to form at 9:30 Friday evening, when Choate graduate Arklay F. King '67 and his Hotchkiss-bred room-mate George D. Kappus '67 arrived with blankets, pillows, and an umbrella to take the first two places on line. At 10:15 two more young men arrived to take their places on the porch of Burr Hall. King reported that the first ten people on line were all from prep schools, and that seven of them came from St. Marks...
From Arabic to archaeology, nearly every school now boasts something special. At Hotchkiss, which still sends 25% of its graduates to Yale, the stress is on sound English and modern math. Each year some boys finish in the eleventh grade, may go on for a year at an English school. Pennsylvania's Hill livens up humanities with a two-year course that correlates the art, music and literature of any one period. Science and philosophy go into a similar course for all seniors at Loomis, which is also strong on atmospheric science. Pomfret is particularly proud of intensive area...
...indeed, many Defense directives are prepared without signature blocks so that either McNamara or Gilpatric can sign. And in his formal meetings, McNamara repeatedly begins a policy statement by saying: "Ros and I think . . ." The son of a lawyer, Gilpatric was born in Brooklyn, waited on tables while attending Hotchkiss, got his bachelor's and law degree from Yale, and worked as a corporation lawyer for the New York firm now known as Cravath, Swaine & Moore...