Word: ills
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Your criticism of President Kennedy over Cuba was ill-timed. I hope you are satisfied now and will support the President...
...Harvey, Ill...
...Most public high schools are at a distinct disadvantage-they must admit all who want to attend. However, there are schools that have enriched programs for top students. New Trier Township High in Winnetka, Ill., Newton (Mass.) High and Melbourne (Fla.) High are a few examples. For some big-city students attending selective high schools, such as New York City's crack Bronx High School of Science and Lowell High in San Francisco, the curriculum is every bit as rugged and the entrance competition as tough as at Andover...
Sickly from birth, Andy became ill after only three months of the first grade, and since the debilitating lung ailment persisted, he never went back to school at all. He could scarcely read until he was 14, still has to depend on his wife to extricate him from his lawless spelling. N. C. Wyeth was delighted to have his son at home on the ground that "no great artist ever went to college." Year after year, Andy's talent grew, until the time came when the great illustrator himself was being introduced as "Andrew Wyeth's father." Today...
...race again-and the sooner the better. To the New York Yacht Club went a formal challenge from London's Royal Thames Yacht Club proposing a race next summer. One new British 12-meter yacht was already abuilding in Scotland (her designer: David Boyd, who also designed the ill-starred Sceptre, which lost four straight to the U.S. in 1958). A second boat was on the drawing boards, and a third might be built. The British proposed to hold their own elimination trials, then take on the U.S. defender. After a full summer of practice this year, Britain...