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...such citadels of learning as New Trier Township High School in Winnetka, Ill. There, he points out, students "may study four years of the Russian language. After two years, they can begin on Chinese, which is then taught in Russian." At Florida's Melbourne High School, one lad recently gave a sample, in a scholarship essay, of the levels that high school research can reach: "Subjection of the eyed river fish Astyanex Mexicanus to total darkness produces hyperplasia and reduction in the relative number of pituitary basophiles." Caltech's awed President Lee A. DuBridge reports that most...
Macalester. In N.M.S.'s seven-year history, all of the Digest Foundation's 86 scholarships have been for Macalester. In some years, half of all winners in Minnesota have thus chosen Macalester. This year only one of Macalester's 20 winners is un-Digested-a Minnesota lad who crept in on an IBM scholarship...
Outwardly stern and arrogant, inwardly trembling, the two lads stand face to face in a room that smells of beer, blood and disinfectant. Each is dressed in a padded leather torso jacket, but except for steel-mesh goggles and noseguard, the head is vulnerable. Now each lad lofts a yard-long rapier with blunt point but sharp edges. At the umpire's "Los!" (go), they slash away-again, again, again-steel against steel for 15 minutes. The noise, astonishingly, is deafening. When steel slashes flesh, a doctor rushes in for repairs. Everyone happily retires to toast the prize...
...imagines them asking at home. " 'I caught a Communist and let him go.' 'What did you do that for, then?' 'Because he was a man.' And not everybody will look at me gone-out. 'Brian, my lad, I'm proud o' you,' the old man would say." Later, in an ambush that looks for a while like the finish, Brian deliberately aims his gun so as to avoid hitting the enemy. At the end of his hitch, he ships back to England, musing that he has found...
...Ekberg visible beneath the surface. Vittorio De Sica (Two Women) directed Sophia Loren in a tale about a girl who works in a traveling circus. At each town, a raffle is held and the winner gets Sophia. In one village, Sophia meets and falls in love with a local lad. To cleanse her name and clear her future, she gives the winner of that day's raffle all the money but no honey...