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...judge makes it more offensive than ever before to call a man a liar; thus there is a "credibility gap" instead. No up-to-date teacher would dare refer to a child as "stupid" or a "bad student"; the D+ student is invariably an "underachiever" or a "slow learner...
...that Feula has a relatively experienced center (Tom Weiss), a big tackle who is as quick as Bob Brooks the is a professional prospect), and two proven ends like Carter Lord and Joe Cook. The only unsure spot was right tackle, and there Chris Burns has been a diligent learner and competent performer...
...latest book on the Peace Corps, The Barrios of Manta, illustrates the in-between nature of the Volunteer's role, both as learner and doer. The authors, Earle and Rhode Brooks, lived in Manta, a fishing town on the coast of Eduador for 20 months. Mainly their book sketches in greater detail a side of the Peace Corps that is already familiar to most Americans: its successes. The Brooks talk of doubts and discouragement but there is no hiding the fact that, in comparison with most Peace Corps Volunteers, they were outstandingly successful...
...Battle. Kennedy was a hard learner. For all his 1960 campaign talk about the need to spur the economy's growth, he was at first much less adventuresome and more conservative than his economists. He was determined to balance the budget and mighty reluctant to try the deficit-spending theories of the late John Maynard Keynes. It took Heller and his activist aides almost two years and 300 memos to convince Kennedy of the Keynesian notion that both economic growth and Government income would be increased...
...when she was ten, Daddy died. It was the trauma of her life, or so she came to think in later years. At any rate, she became a compulsive talker, a compulsive learner, a compulsive writer. All through her teens she scribbled stories, plays, poems-many of them sufficiently professional to be published in Seventeen and Mademoiselle. She won a scholarship to Smith, where she made straight A's. But her feelings took their revenge. At 19, after an unhappy month in New York City, she ran home to Wellesley, Mass., crawled under the front porch, hid behind...