Word: mathe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Robert Fluker, an ex-Kansas football star, now teaching math at Kabul University, tried to give the Afghans some good, clean fun by organizing the country's first boxing matches and baseball games. Premier Sha'h Mahmoud Khan, who has a son at Harvard (and is a Gershwin fan), lobbed out the first ball, and smiled inscrutably as the game progressed from error to error. Since Afghan bagpipers on the sidelines tootled furiously and folk dancers whooped and whirled, the errors were understandable...
Nine. A preoccupied, businesslike air marks Nine. At home and in school he perfects his skills by repetition-whether it is throwing darts or dividing by one digit. Usually a good pupil, especially at math, Nine likes to classify his knowledge (flags, airplanes, military ranks). Beginning to develop a conscience, Nine takes blame if he thinks he deserves it, but has the inner resources to get along without praise. Nine does not want to be babied, favors his gang over his family...
...Binker's reward: $1,000, a year's free graduate study, and an appearance on the Quiz Kids' program. Said she firmly: "But they won't get me into any math quiz with Joel Kupperman...
...that time," he went on, "only two other guys besides me used to ride them, and one was considered a queer and the other was a cripple who didn't walk very well. And I mustn't forget old Professor Julian Coolidge, the math genius. His biking only added to his eccentric reputation...