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Bordley has worked hard to adapt to college competition. Lee calls him, "the most teachable wrestler I've ever had. He's a rapid fire learner...

Author: By David Clarke, | Title: Blind Freshman Makes His First Start As Crimson Matmen Tangle With B.U. | 12/10/1975 | See Source »

Last week many parents joined teachers on the picket line outside P.S. 140. Complained one mother, Mary Akins: "My ten-year-old is a slow learner. With 40 kids in a class, I don't think she can improve...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Teachers: In a Striking Mood | 9/22/1975 | See Source »

...California, Warren wrote a record with only one indelible blot on it: his stand on the treatment accorded Japanese Americans in the hysterical months after Pearl Harbor. He became one of the most urgent advocates of evacuating all of them to inland "relocation" (i.e., concentration) camps. But, always the learner, Warren outgrew this extremist taint, and after the war's end proposed one of the nation's first fair-employment acts, "to break down artificial barriers that give rise to demonstrations of racial prejudice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: Earl Warren's Way: Is It Fair? | 7/22/1974 | See Source »

...spider named Arabella, on board Skylab for a biological experiment, accommodated to space flight within only a day or two, learning to spin her complex geometric web in zero-G after only a few false starts. Said Garriott with a touch of envy: "She is a very fast learner indeed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Longest Walk | 8/20/1973 | See Source »

...East, he turned to that section and read a statement. When we discussed Berlin, he did the same. When I went back a few months later, there was no briefing book. Brezhnev knew what he wanted to say on all subjects and said it. He's a fast learner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DIPLOMACY: A Heady Blend: B. and B. in Bonn | 5/21/1973 | See Source »

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