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...that he was not dangerously ambitious, Carter pointed out that he had not always wanted to be President. Said he, in all seriousness: "When I was at Annapolis, the only thing I wanted to be was Chief of Naval Operations." Later, as a junior officer aboard the submarine Pomfret, he doggedly refused to be kept from his duties by seasickness. Recalls Warren Colegrove, who was the ship's engineering officer: "He'd take his [vomit] bucket with him to the bridge. He was a gutsy...
...past decade is India's Swami Satchidananda, who gained national attention by opening the Woodstock rock festival in 1969. Satchidananda teaches "integral yoga," a combination of yogic disciplines, in 15 metropolitan centers as well as two new live-in communities in Middletown, Calif., and Pomfret, Conn. Catholic nuns and priests often attend the integral-yoga weekend retreats...
Sizer is not new to secondary boarding schools. He attended Pomfret School before graduating from Yale in 1953, and taught at Melbourne Church of England grammar school in Australia...
Things have come to such a pass that a qualified student can still get into some boarding schools in time for the September term. Williston, Tilton and Pomfret, for instance, still have vacancies. Phillips Exeter, while it has no openings, has experienced a decline in applicants during the past few years -and applications are also off at such elite girls' schools as Emma Willard, the Masters School and Ethel Walker...
...schools. A traditional boarding school that excludes one sex is rarely the first choice. "The rural, rustic life is not attractive to young people," says David Pynchon, headmaster of Deerfield Academy in Massachusetts. "Today's youth is not accepting the kind of authority that the school represents." Adds Pomfret Headmaster Joseph K. Milnor Jr.: "They opt for Mom, Pop, a girl and television." Indeed, places in city and suburban private day schools are much in demand. The power of sex appeal is perhaps best demonstrated by Rosemary Hall, which is one of the few girls' boarding schools that...