Word: mathes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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American citizens with Bachelor degrees-math and science concentrators preferred. Peace Corps teachers sign up for two years...
...only twice in high school (B's in gym and English literature) "because I didn't work." At M.S.U., where he eased the financial pinch by living at home and working summers as a lifeguard, he found time for swimming, handball and bottle-ball as well as math. Awarded hefty grants for undergraduate research by the National Science Foundation, Petrie now has a $3,200-a-year N.S.F. fellowship for graduate work at Princeton. The future worries him: "Communism seems to be creeping up on us all over the world. I don't feel I can plan...
James Edward Gunn, 22, is a summa cum laude graduate in math and physics at Rice University, the Southwest's toughest campus. A straight-A high school graduate, Gunn attended Rice on a four-year scholarship, won a peck of academic prizes. "I've never been able really to determine the limits of his ability,'' says one physics professor. "I've never been able to ask him an exam question that he can't give a perfect answer to.'' Except for the astronomy club, Gunn steered clear of extracurricular activities, studied...
...class, scored in the "low 700s" on his College Board exams, and had no Harvard-alumni ties. Harvard not only spotted his promise but also helped him get a full four-year General Motors scholarship when his father, a lawyer-accountant, died in 1957. Feldstein focused on math, economics and premedical courses, got a prize for straight A's in his sophomore year, made Phi Beta Kappa in his junior year, became president of the economics honor society chapter, and this year won the Palfrey Exhibition award for the outstanding scholarship student. He also tended babies, sold junior-executive...
...engineering class. The war over, John went back to Yale for some serious studying, then headed out to Santa Fe where Clint Sr. had lined him up a $175-3-month job in a bank. Meanwhile Clint Jr. was getting a master's in math at M.I.T. In 1950 they joined forces in Dallas...