Word: starke
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...always been assembled into singing groups. Government bureaucrats looked ridiculous in that instance because of their failure to admit a common-sense truth: some exclusivity-by race, sex, color and creed as well as by calling-arises not for bad but for good reasons. White Democratic Congressman Fortney H. Stark of California suffered a similar failure a couple of years ago when he applied for membership in the congressional Black Caucus. Questions: Does the congressional...
...mistakes commanders made in the past, as an intellectual exercise." Colin Camerer has a more direct interest in combat, since he lists as his main concerns "business and power." He adds: "Someone's going to be making decisions, and frankly I want to be there." Eugene Stark, by contrast, has a more modest policy: "I try to appear as normal as possible. If you go around broadcasting that you're a weirdo, then people look at you like you're a weirdo...
...math. He asked them to take the Scholastic Aptitude Test normally given to college-bound high school students. The result: a group of seven boys scored well over 700 (out of a possible 800), a feat matched by only 5% of 18-year-old males. Besides Dietz, Camerer and Stark, the test also identified two other youngsters who are graduating from Johns Hopkins this year-Michael Kotschenreuther, 18, and Robert Addison, 19-as mathematically gifted. Stanley also helped other youthful math wizards, whom his testing turned up, get into other colleges. Among them: Eric Jablow, 15, who this year became...
Stanley's five Johns Hopkins protégés seem almost too dedicated to their calling. Spare-time reading tends toward math and science books, with a little science fiction thrown in for leavening. Favorite hobbies include, not surprisingly, chess and bridge. Stark and Camerer, however, seem drawn to nonscientific pastimes-Stark to softball and ragtime music on the trombone. Camerer to journalism. He has been writing stories about fashions and fishing for the Beachcomber, a free weekly published in Ocean City...
...future, most of the Johns Hopkins prodigies envision high-powered research careers following Ph.D. studies at-variously-the University of Chicago, Cornell, M.I.T. and Princeton. Three-Dietz, Stark and Kotschenreuther-have received National Science Foundation fellowships, prestigious grants awarded each year for advanced research. And Stanley is willing to bet on them all-using probability theory, of course-for "original contributions...