Word: roughness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...When Len was an infant, his father's employer was elected Vice President of the U.S., and a month after the election Teddy Roosevelt noted the new baby's arrival in a letter to his old friend and Spanish-American War commander (the Rough Riders), General Leonard Wood...
...plane carries a rocket with 3,500-lb. thrust for extra bursts of speed, can take off or land in less than 1,000 yards. It weighs less than five tons (v. eight tons for the Mystère), but it is sturdy enough to operate out of rough fields. The Mirage has a price tag of $300,000, about two-thirds the cost of the Myst...
...with Mettle. Unlike most Greek politicians, Constantine Karamanlis (now Premier in his own right for the first time) is not a member of a wealthy Athenian family but the son of a Macedonian schoolteacher, with the rough tongue and traces of the rough manners of the north. Trained as a lawyer, and a member of Parliament since 1935, Karamanlis early showed his mettle. When John Metaxas padlocked Parliament and declared himself dictator, he summoned Karamanlis and offered him a Cabinet post. Karamanlis looked Metaxas squarely in the eye and said: "Mister Premier, all dictatorships contain the sperm of death. They...
...HAND, by Holger Cahill (409 pp.; Harcourt, Brace; $4.95), is a juggling act with four themes in the air at all times: 1) an epic of the soil, 2) a love story, 3) a study of an ex-G.I. reorienting himself to peacetime life, and 4) a rough-and-tumble western. Taking the empty-boxcar and hobo-jungle route, Cam Johnson, the novel's hero, beats his way back to the wheat-belt town of his childhood. Buffalo Coulee is Our Town on Central Standard Time, "a rundown county seat started by French voyageurs, half-breeds and Sioux...
...definite estimate of a student's chance for acceptance can be given, but counsellors could be given information with which to make rough guesses. Colleges have been justifiably hesitant in releasing statistics, feeling that they would lead to a stereotyped student, discouraging diverse applications. But they could release figures in percentiles, showing 33 percent of the students have IQ's below 80, 98 percent are on scholarship, 13 percent are sons of alumni, 98 percent live in Tuscaloosa, and none play football. This is surely better than allowing students to pick the wrong college, leaving voluntarily or otherwise after...