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...Bill Knowland is a politically ambitious man. He wants to be President. In order to beat out Dick Nixon for the nomination in 1960, he decided to come back here and run for governor. If he could beat out a popular governor [i.e., Knight] in the primary and then lick the most popular nominee the Democrats could put up [i.e., California's Attorney General Edmund G. Brown], he figured he would be almost invincible as a candidate for the presidential nomination...
...course called "Refresher Math" at James Lick High School in San Jose, Calif, (pop. 150,000) is a dumping ground for the supposedly unteachable-and the untaught. The math ability of its students runs to about fifth-grade level; their IQs are the school's lowest. This year a phenomenon startling enough to be called a "miracle" by James Lick Principal William Baker is taking place: Refresher Math students are beginning to learn math. Catalyst of the change is a wiry, tireless 36-year-old Turk named Tanju Ergil, who does not own a teaching certificate...
...literature especially, those who miss the middle group course go right into the "200" section. Moreover, the advanced courses take over where the introductory surveys leave off, offering the student a chance to investigate more thoroughly an author or work to whom English 7 or 10 gave only a lick and a promise...
...time he played hooky with a pal named Mel McQuarry. When Charlie got home, his father was waiting with a razor strop. Next morning at school, the teacher started to give him a thrashing. Says Rhyne: "I argued as hard as I could that she shouldn't lick me because I'd already got my beating. I offered to pull down my pants to prove it, and she let me off. It was my first double jeopardy case...
...From Oklahoma to New York, an eight-man team of Soviet wrestlers found only one American who could lick his weight in Russians. In the four-match tour, University of Iowa Alumnus Terry McCann, 23, U.S. 125½ lb. champ, was the only U.S. wrestler to win any bouts. He won three, drew...