Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...That Little Smart Aleck." Dreams came easy in Louisville's West End. "Why can't I be rich?" Cassius once asked his father. His father touched him on one pecan-colored hand and said. "Look there. That's why you can't be rich." But at twelve. Cassius got his "wheel." It was a shiny $60 bicycle, and he proudly pedaled off to a fair at the Columbia Gym downtown. When the show was over, the bike was gone. In tears, Cassius sought out Policeman Joe Martin. "If I find the kid who stole my bike...
...showroom downtown got a big laugh at the little Negro, face pressed against the glass, gazing wistfully at the glittering cars inside. "All Cassius talked about was money-turning pro," says Martin. "At first, I didn't encourage him. A year later, though, you could see that little smart aleck had a lot of potential...
...that nothing is more irritating than being asked: "How do you like America?" They seek not superficial cordiality but a few genuine American companions with whom they can discuss the very problems of adjustment which housing and academic tensions create. Of the many students encountered by the Reverend Reginald Smart of the International Ministry, "not more than one quarter have any kind of real friendship with any American...
...began building full-scale computers dropped out, and the eight survivors carry on chiefly by offsetting huge losses on computers with profits from other divisions. Says RCA's Vice President for Computer Marketing Edwin McCollister: "In such a rat race, you have to be terribly lucky and terribly smart, or you have got to have a lot of money. This is a battle of the giants...
...smart to offer these courses without a field of concentration at first to give us a chance to see what develops. We will have a better idea of what to do with courses in visual studies after next year," he said...