Word: prescotts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After a forfeit win over Weld, Wigglesworth West has had two one-sided victories. They beat Thayer, 45-33, and Strauss ABC, by a 56-43 score. Their other wins have come via a forfeit from Weld, and a 46-40 decision over Hurlbut-Prescott...
...first Helmreich and Prescott attributed the phenomenon to the intellectual stimulation mothers provide in trying to cope with the restlessness of bedridden youngsters. The researchers had to discard the theory when they also found the Teddy Roosevelt effect in Navy enlisted men who came, not from middle-and upper-middle-class homes like those of the aquanauts, but from lower-middle-class backgrounds that did not encourage study or reading. An alternative explanation, suggests Helmreich, may be that "children who are sick more often are more isolated from others of their own age and so they tend to use adults...
...sicker when young, the brighter when grown? It seems an unlikely proposition, but Psychologist Robert Helmreich of the University of Texas at Austin and Psychiatrist William Prescott of the U.S. Public Health Service in San Juan, P.R., argue that it is true. The Teddy Roosevelt effect, Helmreich calls it, after the President who emerged from a sickly childhood into an adulthood of endeavor and accomplishment...
...Died. Prescott Sheldon Bush, 77, former U.S. Senator from Connecticut (1952-63), and father of U.N. Ambassador George Bush; in New York. A longtime confidant and golf partner of Dwight Eisenhower's and a banker by training, Bush was an authority on Government finance and the economy. Despite his lack of seniority, he wielded considerable and conservative influence on the Banking and Currency and Joint Economic committees...
...19th century vaudevillian, and if God only knows what rodeo groupies talk like, it must be something different than what is said here. But there is enough full achieved in this film--with the aid of photographer Lucien Ballard, composer Jerry Fielding, and the setting and people of Prescott (where the first pro rodeo was held in 1888)-to reaffirm my faith in Sam Peckinpah as the first American director to successfully put his own world on film in his own vocabulary, and keep on growing consistently beyond...