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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...popular U.S. magazine, the young Colombian spied an ad that roused his dreams. The American correspondence school promised a radio and electronics course, equipment to study with. To raise tuition, the boy's father sold the family house. Off went his precious pesos-and the school was never heard from. In Bogotá, the U.S. consul nodded wearily as the victims denounced the "wicked and harmful" deception...
Worst aspect is that more and more of the victims are gullible citizens of underdeveloped countries. Thirsting for status-by-schooling, they assume that any U.S. school advertising itself abroad is Government-approved. They save their coppers, lunge at the bait and get hooked. Result: the prestige of genuine U.S. degrees is falling; some countries refuse to recognize any but those of famed institutions...
Housecleaning? One way to nail the schools is to insist on residence requirements; the proprietors would run if any student showed up to meet his teachers. New York and Arkansas, which require one year of residence for a correspondence-school degree, are little plagued by the problem. In contrast, easygoing Colorado, Delaware and Indiana are hangouts for fake schools with a thriving trade in India, Pakistan, Burma and Egypt...
Sociologist Jack Randolph Conrad of Southwestern at Memphis (enrollment: 651) was asked to help suggest the best possible courses for the Scientific Age. His answer: look to the Stone Age. The most basic course, he said solemnly last week in the school's alumni newsletter, should be "introductory survival technology." Items: "How to make acorn meal, how to make simple traps, how to tan leather, how to make simple tools and weapons from stone, how to smelt ore, how to find safe drinking water, how to recognize poisonous plants, how to keep an infant alive without milk...
...Angeles dry cleaner, Sherry was born with clubfeet, did not recover from corrective surgery until he was twelve. But Larry grimly pitched by the hour to Brother Norm (now a third-string catcher for the Dodgers), eventually developed enough speed to be a star at Fairfax High School. Signed by the Dodgers, Sherry looked like just another scatter-armed fireballer, once walked 15 men in three innings, had one losing season after another as he wandered through the lower reaches of the minors (Santa Barbara, Great Falls, Mont., Newport News...