Word: schoolboy
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...university diploma, as every Soviet schoolboy knows, is an essential passport to a white-collar job and ultimate success. Inevitably, the competition for college has led to a displeasing amount of corruption. This spring, reported Komsomolskaya Pravda, 32 students were expelled from the Armenian state university in Erivan when authorities discovered that they had gained their admission through political influence and faked records, and had not passed a single entrance test...
...little dance of alienation, romping through the Louvre in about nine minutes to beat the record set by a busy American tourist. The rest is pretty random stuff, discomfitting evidence that Godard's blazing love affair with the art of film sometimes resembles nothing so much as a schoolboy's crush...
...hockey team has elected Dennis McCullough captain for next season. McCullough, who played his schoolboy hockey in Dollar Bay, Mich, and at Andover, and has been a wing for the Crimson varsity for almost two full seasons...
William Samuel Rosenberg began to attract attention as an undersized schoolboy. He became a winning sprinter "by jumping the gun without detection." Soon afterward he stopped growing. But he kept on running, and he never stopped jumping the competition. He was too tiny-5 ft. 3 in.-to compete physically, so he decided to lead with his right: he became a stenographer. The day before he was to compete in a worldwide shorthand contest, he broke an index finger. He worked his way around the injury by jamming his pen through a potato, then took dictation while holding the potato...
Nevertheless, the exceptional Ivy athletes, whose ambitions are to match skills with the nation's best competitors, would be denied that opportunity without the NCAA. It would be ironic indeed if the League which professes no distinction between athletes and scholars should force outstanding schoolboy athletes to choose between either education or athletics in a college...