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Dates: during 1960-1969
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College Courses. The school's endowment is $25.3 million (book value ), which is why it can hand out scholarships freely. This fall 28% of the student body is down for $260,000 in aid, including such all-out help as full tuition for the son of a coal miner with a yearly income of $1,975. Even those who pay the full $1,800, which is low for top schools, are in a sense on scholarship. Andover spends $3,400 a year on each...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Well Begun Is Half Done | 10/26/1962 | See Source »

...museum; and Diane Brown. 21, willowy Manhattan model, his constant companion; he for the third time; at Melody Farm, the Hartford family fief in Wyckoff. N.J. Caught unaware as the couple hurried off on their honeymoon, Manhattan papers let on that the new Mrs. Hartford was a coal miner's daughter, but after five days in Vermont she returned to set those "silly stories'' straight. "My dad is an accountant, not a coal miner.'' she said, "and I was born in Brookline, Massachusetts.'' She did indeed live in Pennsylvania for a while...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Oct. 19, 1962 | 10/19/1962 | See Source »

...toxin-antitoxin shots; the minister pompously complains of Marcy's interfering when she tells of tubercular prisoners in the penitentiary. The voices of the poor exalt Marcy: it is recalled that she went more than 20 miles through waist-deep snow to tend the dying child of a miner when no doctor would get out of bed to do the job, that she was kind to a halfwit, that she soothed an unjustly condemned man in his last hours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Eliza Crosses Main Street | 10/19/1962 | See Source »

Others fleeing from East Berlin had better luck last week. A young electrical engineer clung to a homemade bucket seat attached to a crane while friends on the Western side wafted him 90 ft. across the Wall. Three teenage boys cut their way through barbed wire, and a coal miner, his courage kindled by schnapps, leaped 35 ft. from a bridge into a barge canal, then swam to the Western shore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Berlin: The Gesture Was Hollow | 10/12/1962 | See Source »

Phillips' lawyers immediately filed notice of appeal. But whatever the final outcome, Prosecutor John W. Miner is confident that the case will help to protect cancer patients whose disease can be cured, or at least alleviated, by standard medical treatment-if quacks do not talk them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Quackery & Murder | 10/12/1962 | See Source »

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