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Although annual fees for tuition, board and room add up to a hefty $4,700, life at the small (enrollment: 175) coed boarding school is almost as rigorous as that of a Marine boot camp. Many of the students are troubled, and short-tempered Gauld treats them like a drill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: School of Hard Knocks | 8/9/1976 | See Source »

In order to return the Olympics as much as possible to sports, Olympic committees and other influential organizations must not confuse nationalist spirit with national pride. For example: In the last week there have been proposals, most notably by men's track and field coach Dr. Leroy Walker, to create...

Author: By Daniel Gil, | Title: At the Olympics | 8/3/1976 | See Source »

Marine boot camp has been upon occasion called brutal. Rigorous it is from design, but true brutality would be to send Marines into combat without the benefit of it.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forum, Aug. 2, 1976 | 8/2/1976 | See Source »

Walker, 24, whose training was as punishing if not as puritan as Bayi's, had been greatly relieved to learn of the Tanzanian's rigorous schedule. It dispelled the intimidating notion popular among Bayi's competitors-that he had tapped some magical source of stamina in the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: A Matter of Race | 7/19/1976 | See Source »

The court now complained that under such narrow laws all those convicted of a given crime became "members of a faceless, undifferentiated mass to be subjected to the blind infliction of the death penalty." The new ruling rejected that approach in favor of leaving leeway for juries and judges to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: The Death Penalty Revived | 7/12/1976 | See Source »

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