Word: lowe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Adams that "the cloven foot is in plain sight." Jefferson was berated as a mean-spirited hypocrite, Jackson as a murderer and adulterer, Lincoln as a baboon. With rare elegance, Teddy Roosevelt called Woodrow Wilson "a Byzantine logothete* backed by flubdubs and mollycoddles. " When the Depression laid Herbert Hoover low, newspapers were called "Hoover blankets," and a "Hoover flag" was an empty pocket turned inside...
Hayes is unfazed, however. He thinks that his loopholes are well knitted, and he cites Judge Learned Hand's 1934 finding: "Anyone may so arrange his affairs that his taxes shall be as low as possible; he is not bound to choose that pattern which best pays the Treasury. Everyone does it, rich and poor alike, and all do right; for nobody owes any public duty to pay more than the law demands." Hayes does not believe that the law demands the exclusion of an ABC-style foundation...
Most U.S. colleges use the S.A.T.s with considerable sophistication and plead with both parents and students not to regard a low score as a guarantee that an application will be rejected. "If we get a boy out of a Harlem slum who scores 490," explains Harvard Admissions Dean Chase Peterson, "we know that compares to the 610 scored by a boy out of Newton." In general, colleges tend to rely much more heavily on high school records, recommendations of teachers and alumni associations, and personal interviews. Schools are far more interested in such traits as motivation, curiosity, self-discipline...
Worried by overcrowding, low admission standards and lax discipline, a group of alumni in 1961 persuaded the Boston school committee to institute competitive entrance exams and to transfer elsewhere students who flunk a subject two years in a row. The real rejuvenation started only with the appointment three years ago of Headmaster Wilfred O'Leary, an unashamed autocrat with a classics degree from Boston College who cracks heads as easily as he conjugates Latin verbs...
...teeth. A search of an intense kind has been made. As the Malmö train connects with the Berlin train, it is thought that the teeth have been stolen by a Gestapo agent. Later still. Lord Davies' teeth have been found." All, however, was not low jinks in high diplomacy. Churchill drew Macmillan closer to him, and the fact that both men had American mothers made it seem right that Macmillan would work better than most others in the vital area of Anglo-American cooperation. In this field, Macmillan won many of the battles. He grasped the essential point...