Word: mccandless
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Real Drop. After analyzing the latest results, Sam McCandless, director of admissions testing for the College Entrance Examination Board, says the decline is "real." He insists that previous rationalizations-lower scores might be caused by technical changes in the SATs or by greater numbers of poor and minority students taking the tests-do not hold up. The reason for the drop, says McCandless: a decline in students' "developed reasoning ability...
...many, it was a disconcerting experience. In McCandless, Pa., four-year-old Heather Campbell, awakened in the morning by her mother, asked: "Why are we going to bed so late?" At the Chicago Zoological Park in Brookfield, keepers had to wake up the wolves for their Sunday dinner of horsemeat and ground turkey. In Puerto Rico, which stayed on standard time, hundreds of tourists missed their scheduled planes to the mainland because the airlines had adopted the new time schedule, and they had to be flown home aboard special flights. At the Bank of America headquarters in San Francisco, bleary...
...McCandless, program service officer for the College Board's Admissions Testing Program, said that, "there seems no longer to be a general consensus about what it means to be 'well educated...
PRINCETON-RUTGERS--Ex-Tiger coach Jake McCandless may have been charged with padding the Princeton admissions roles with football prospects, but you wouldn't know it from the rag-tag squad the Tigers will put on the field. Tiger defense will keep the score down, though, which is some consolation. Rutgers 14, Princeton...
...been an extraordinary physical and emotional ordeal for John Dean. Most evenings after the hearings, he and his two attorneys, Robert McCandless and Charles Shaffer, retreated to Dean's town house in Alexandria, Va. There, Maureen, his brittlely attractive wife who sat somewhat tensely behind Dean in the hearing room, prepared hamburgers. Then Dean and the lawyers went over the day's testimony and watched evening newscasts but not reruns of the day's performance. After a hot bath and a rubdown by "Mo," Dean would get to sleep by 11:30 p.m. Despite the tension...