Word: scholarships
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fears that the jury's "flukish decision" will encourage other Robin Hood robberies. As for Masover, he was awarded a prestigious state regent's scholarship and plans this week to enter the University of California at Berkeley, where he will study physics and try to forget his close encounter with...
After brief stints at Claremont Men's College and the College of Marin, he and his companion decided to become performers. Although his indignant father advised him to study welding so he would at least have a marketable skill, Robin won an acting scholarship to the Juilliard School in New York, where he earned money performing mime in whiteface in front of the Metropolitan Museum. In 1976 he returned to San Francisco and met Valerie Velardi, a dancer whom he married last June. Valerie organized and catalogued his routines, and persuaded him to try his act in Los Angeles. With...
...practitioners of a parascience, the authors are rightly humble about confusing their models with immutable truths. They may not have the lively journalistic bounce of an Alvin Toffler or the fluid drive of a Vance Packard, but Social Standing's scholarship adds some fascinating discriminations. For example, though money is the basic yardstick people use to rank themselves, income is only a component of status, not its cause. Education is the prime means to higher income - which is then translated into higher status. But schooling that does not lead to a high-paying job earns few points...
Before graduating, Woolway was recruited by Colorado, Stanford, Santa Clara, Princeton and Harvard. He originally signed a letter of intent to play for Santa Clara and received a full scholarship. In April, however, he visited Cambridge, decided it was more to his liking, and passed up the free ride at Santa Clara. "I just really didn't want to get involved in a high-power football-factory type situation," Woolway said. "I take football seriously. It's just that there are other things besides football...
...Harvard was much too tempting to turn down," Cuccia says. "You can't say no to the name, and you can't beat the scholarship. At the football schools, if you get hurt they take your scholarship away. Here it doesn't matter if you play or not. My parents have to pay a little more a year and I didn't want to put pressure on them. But my mom told me 'you won't get a better education anywhere,' and when she put it that way I couldn't refuse...