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...study in a relative decline that continues through adolescence and into adulthood. In reading ability and knowledge of literature, girls are ahead of boys until age 17, but the same pattern of relative decline shows up as they grow older. Only in writing ability and music do females outperform males in later years...
...sticking out of its sides-rotated slowly, like some ominous unearthly creature. In fact, the odd contraption was a practical terrestrial creation. Designed by the All American Engineering Co. of Wilmington, Del., the Aerocrane, as it is called, is an unlikely cross between helicopter and balloon. It should easily outperform both in at least one important respect: the ability to hoist huge weights straight up from the ground and transport them across the countryside...
...Crimson netmen were hard pressed to outperform the Princeton squad, although they gave the heavily favored Tigers a scare. Harvard dropped four of the six singles matches, but then came back to threaten the Tigers with a possible doubles sweep, as the three Crimson doubles pairs each won the first set of their contests...
...Jewett-Arthurs letter stated that "probably 75 per cent or more" of Harvard's black students come from middleclass backgrounds and that "those few students who are admitted here from poorer backgrounds tend to outperform their more traditionally prepared classmates...
...interview with Chicago Daily News Columnist Mike Royko, Agnew was unusually outspoken. He said that if he became President he could scarcely outperform Nixon in foreign affairs, but on the domestic scene, he had "some ideas." He faulted the Administration for abandoning various programs without devising better ones to replace them...