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Unfortunately, even if, behind locked doors, they admit to each other the weaknesses of grades as measures of intellect, academics are still likely to select as outstanding that which elevated them to their present high position: namely, academic prowess...
This competition is part of a national program to select the Finn Monotype squad that will represent the United States at the Tokyo Olympics this summer. In order to make the team, Prince and Lankton will have to place well in four more qualifying regattas against some of the hottest sailors in North America...
...delegates pledged to Senator Goldwater and Ambassador Lodge. (No slate is committed to Governor Rockefeller.) Although no delegate is listed as pro-Goldwater or pro-Lodge on the ballot, certain names--like that of Lodge's son, George C. Lodge '50--will tell knowledgeable voters which slate to select. Thirty-four delegates will be elected to represent the state's Republican minority...
...Sunday, eight Harvard single-handed specialists will enter the first elimination round of the O'Day Cup competition, a continental talent search designed to select the United States' Olympic Finn Dinghy team...
...came to the U.S. from southern Italy when he was only twelve, soon bought his first Model T, and within eight years had parlayed it into a thriving rent-a-car business that grew to a fleet of 33 cars, mostly Fords. He returned to Italy at 31 to select his bride, found her in his home town of Benevento and honeymooned at Venice's sultry Lido Beach. Back in the U.S., they called their only son Lido out of sentiment for that spot. Iacocca's father branched into real estate around Allentown, Pa., so increased his holdings...