Word: parkers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...final camp, Chan used his last article of wealth, a Parker pen set, to bribe his way into the prison hospital. On a stormy night he slipped out a window, climbed the fence, and raced between the guard towers. Hopping a freight train bound for Canton, Chan hid out with friends who gave him food and civilian clothes. From September 1961 until he made it across the border, Chan was constantly on the move, sometimes staying with a sympathetic cop of the PSB, more often working for the black marketeers of Canton running gold bars, ginseng, watches and saccharin upriver...
Race strategy was handled far too often at the beginning by the head of the Australian syndicate, Sir Frank Parker. Only after the debacle of the first race was Sturrock allowed to wield complete control...
...once again discovered man's plight and told of it with inky excitement and a taste of gore. Then, in the din and jangle of their city room, they had submitted their findings to City Editor Agness ("Aggie") Underwood, who at 59 ranks unrivaled as the Ma Parker of American journalism...
...Parker's 570 boys and girls cover trigonometry in three weeks, and start calculus in their junior year. Almost all of them go to college; more remarkably, 80% of them last year went to the college of their first choice. According to the National Registration Office, a private school monitor, they also get nearly twice as many A's and B's in college as the average for graduates of other prep schools...
...Parker has one teacher for every eleven students, a fulltime psychologist and 25 part-time teaching assistants. Pay is not high-the lure is freedom in teaching. Specializing in one subject, Parker's teachers get a chance to cover it at many levels. Barr McCutcheon teaches algebra to fifth-graders and transfinite arithmetic to seniors, for example, and McCutcheon need not bother with standard math texts-"a bore." "For an educator, this is heaven," says Principal Thomas, who notes that 36 teachers applied for a single vacancy in the history department this spring...