Word: latelies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Preliminary results indicate that 80% of these students will graduate-roughly comparable to the survival rate for the whole college. But Williams has also found that the "late bloomer" is overrated-the boy who did poorly in high school seldom blossoms suddenly forth in college. The specialist also proves disappointing. On the other hand, the campus leader seems to have the ability to get through a rough adjustment period, then does well. The best gamble apparently is the high school "overachiever." Concludes Philip F. Smith, coordinator of the Williams plan: "College board scores are much less important than high school...
...could be forgiven. She is only 22, and her exuberance is part of her considerable talent. Her musicianship is anything but immature, however. Her sound is rich and round, her technique impeccable, and her sweeping phrases captivating. She has been compared by some critics to the late great Portuguese cellist Guilhermina Suggia and even Pablo Casals. That may be premature-but only somewhat...
...Jones plunged 10.69 points-its biggest drop in three months. When the Fed's easy-money move came at midweek, it helped power the market to a 4.12-point gain in a trading day so turbulent that at one point the stock ticker was twelve minutes late...
Britain's Bulldog picks up the lady's scent when she arrives in London to collect her fee from the late magnate's chief competitors. She offers him a cigar; this time it is too slow on the draw, and Drummond tails her to a rendezvous with her boss, the inevitable master criminal. In his previous incarnations, Carl Petersen was presented as a fiend "whose inhuman calm acted on Drummond like a cold douche"; in this film, he is introduced as an Oilfinger (Nigel Green) who extorts a tribute of terror from the big petroleum cartels...
Kirkland's Dave Thomas missed the game because of knee injuries suffered late in the season, and offensive spark-plug Bo Keefe left the game after a few minutes with an ankle sprain...