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Saturday, March 29 CBS GOLF CLASSIC (CBS, 4-5 p.m.). Al Geiberger and Dave Stockton v. Art Wall and Charles Coody in first-round match...
...founder and moving spirit is Dennis Warren, 21, a prelaw student at the University of the Pacific in Stockton, Calif. The very antithesis of the stereotype student radical, Warren wears his hair closely cropped, dresses in conservative pinstripe suits and black shoes. As a sophomore, he won two gold medals at the Pi Kappa Delta national debating tournament...
...Warren has seen it expand from a campus-wide drive at his own college into a nationwide movement that now has 327 college chapters and 3,000 high school divisions. More than 20,000 letters inquiring about LUV have flooded into Warren's busy headquarters on the Stockton campus. Only three of these have been critical-and only one contained a contribution...
...tests put him high in the genius category, but his grades were mediocre until his interest was aroused. He was so bored by his fifth-grade schoolwork in Stockton, Calif., where his father then taught at the University of the Pacific, that concerned school officials gave him a battery of psychological tests, then decided to let him skip the sixth grade. His marks climbed, and he was jumped past the ninth and eleventh grades. He went to summer school, took eight semesters of Berkeley math and humanities courses by mail, graduated from high school...
...APPLE TREE. Mike Nichols directs and Barbara Harris stars in three playlets based on stories by Mark Twain, Frank Stockton and Jules Feiffer...