Word: preps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cheery, manly manner of a New England prep-school headmaster, Dulles operates an intelligence service with resources far beyond those of his historic predecessors. CIA's staff is huge-estimates run from 8,000 to 30,000-and it includes a greater proportion of "super-grade" civil servants ($12,000-$14,000 a year) than any other agency of the U.S. Government. It occupies at least 30 buildings in Washington alone; its headquarters is the wartime OSS building off E Street. CIA's budget, which goes to Congress concealed within the budget requests of other agencies, is never...
Fleet Skipper. Corny also became a student at Brooklyn's Poly Prep. He captained the swimming team, played end in football, and was a 220-yd.-dash man at school. But his chief interest was dashing off somewhere to sail. At 22, he won his first Long Island Sound championship in a Larchmont Interclub Class sloop...
...when the TIME story on Dempsey appeared, Kennedy was a husky four-year-old punching his way through nursery school in Worcester, Mass. At Loomis prep school he resigned from the tennis team to organize a golf team. (He now shoots in the high 705 and feels that an ideal vacation is 36 holes of golf every day of the week.) After graduating from Brown University, he joined the Navy as an apprentice seaman, started his training as a "90day wonder," and elected to fight the war in small boats. He got his wish: skipper of a PT boat...
Plugging for less stuffy language, Bernstein noted "microcosm, merchandising, macrocosm and meteorology all in one tasteless sentence," and suggested Times-men write with "prep school kids in mind constantly. You'll need them to pay your salary by and by." After discovering "Thanksgiving has come and gone and Christmas is upon us and there doesn't seem to have been a single turkey dinner served up in the news columns 'with all the fixin's,'" Bernstein joyfully wrote: "Innkeeper, wine all around!" He also pounces on sloppy checking of names. When a story from Germany...
Massachusetts' exclusive Groton School believes that what its boys need most is religion, sportsmanship and selfdiscipline. The prep school's formula is Spartan: up at "bell" (6:45 a.m.), cold showers, dark suits on Sundays, chapel (Episcopal) every morning, black marks (which have to be made up through chores like leaf-raking) for misbehavior. The boys must get their Latin conjugations straight, and are encouraged to play a creditable game of football. Such a regime, thinks Brazil's Millionaire Press Lord Assis Chateaubriand, is just what is needed by Brazilian students, for the most part gay youths...