Word: jeffs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Brainstorm begins with a small, safe idea, carefully contrived to spur concern for the right people. Driving home from work one night, a sober young research analyst (Jeff Hunter) comes upon a locked limousine stalled on the railroad tracks, with an irresistible blonde (Anne Francis) asleep inside. Of course, he saves her from an approaching train. Of course, she upbraids him for spoiling her attempted suicide, and of course she turns out to be the wife of his employer (Dana Andrews), the ruthless tycoon who heads Benson Industries...
...cost of this education is high-about $5,000 for the year, including all the trips. The school shuns "unstable problem students," and "the oversophisticated," but welcomes late-blooming students whose high school grades may not have been tops. Yale-bound Jeff Graham, 17, son of a Michigan equipment manufacturer, sums up the experience: "At Exeter I did well, but had no great enthusiasm. I was in a sort of academic mud bog, but here something seemed to catch. This place has brought a lot of us out of our little tiny shells...
...Brown Sound. Among the many white rock 'n' roll singers attempting a pure "brown sound" today, the most successful are the Righteous Brothers and the Rolling Stones. The Righteous Brothers, a Mutt-and-Jeff pair of 24-year-old Californians, are referred to by Negro disk jockeys as "our blue-eyed soul brothers" for the spiraling gospel wail and hoarse growl they inject into songs like their bestselling Just Once in My Life. Their name, in fact, is derived from the Sunday-go-to-meetin' phrase: "Man, that was really righteous, brothers...
Lost in a Library. "Monday was a bad day," said Jeffrey Brookstone, 17, a top student and student-council president at Palmetto Senior High in Miami. "I went oh-for-three." He had been turned down by Harvard, Yale and Trinity. Unassuming and outgoing, Jeff had been featured in Miami newspapers as an outstanding student leader. He had produced a color movie on Palmetto High that won a national award from the Secondary School Teachers Association. His grades had slipped below straight A's only during one quarter, and then because of his extracurricular activities...
...Jeff's father, an airline mechanic, took the rejection with good humor. "Bring out your rejection letters, Jeff," he said. Jeff, who had wadded them all into a ball, tried to uncrinkle them. "Its the population explosion," said Brookstone. "You can attribute it all to that. Competition is just too tough." Then he added, with a grin: "All the same, I'll never endow a building at Harvard or Yale after this." But Jeff wistfully recalls visiting Cambridge and New Haven last summer: "Have you ever been to Harvard? The whole atmosphere is just tremendous. You can almost...