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Rockefeller graduated from Lincoln with deficiencies in arithmetic and spelling, but with an urge to learn more about people. He decided Princeton, Yale and Harvard were undemocratic, bypassed them to attend smaller Dartmouth. At Hanover he directed a stirring attack on the fraternity system but eventually joined Psi Upsilon, wielded a fire hose and earned a black eye during a battle between his sophomore class and freshmen, ran and lost for president of the junior class. In the Rockefeller tradition he also taught Sunday school, abstained from smoking and the traditional applejack parties in White River Junction and made...
...Berlitz School (Rockefeller Center class), studied Spanish two hours a day for three months. Returning to Venezuela as a director of Standard Oil's subsidiary, Creole Petroleum, he hopped from Creole compound to compound, persuaded the company to improve conditions on the outside, urged U.S. oilworkers to learn the language...
...first term arguments are interminable. Slowly then, as the weeks pass, these Southerners who were at first so ready to argue acquire a certain resignation. Not that they have capitulated, but rather that they have begun to see the impossibility of convincing their opponents; their opponents learn the same lesson, but perhaps a little slower...
Perhaps the greatest educational benefit of Southerners attending Harvard is bestowed on their Northern and Eastern classmates who learn that the Southerners' ideas and ideals, however divergent, are based on reasoning and sincere conviction and are not just the product of the Theodore Bilbos...
...changes as he takes off and lands. In addition to United, eleven other lines will school their pilots for the jet age on Link trainers, both for the DC-8 and Boeing 707. The trainers will save the lines huge sums, since it costs only $36 an hour to learn in a trainer, compared to upwards of $1,000 in a plane...