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Learning: The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious...
Last summer's macabre mass murders in Chicago and Austin seemed irresistibly fascinating to Robert Benjamin Smith, 18, studious, reticent high school senior in Mesa, Ariz. (pop. 50,000). Three months ago, Bob Smith began to concoct his own nightmarish schemes for multiple murder. After toying with several other likely sites, he settled on the Rose-Mar College of Beauty, a mile and a half from his home, because of the number of potential victims-student beauticians and housewife customers-to be found there...
...apart are a deep and striking blue. Endowed as well with lustrous black hair, flashing smile and a milkmaid's complexion, Luci is undeniably comely-more so than most of her photographs indicate. Not entirely by accident, the Secret Service code name for her is Venus; Lynda, more studious and serious, is Velvet; Lady Bird is Victoria...
...ENDLESS SUMMER. Two California surfers prowl the world in a studious documentary on the quest for the perfect wave...
...turn of the century it was a Yardly custom for freshmen to call up to their friends' rooms from the ground below. One over-studious freshman, known to posterity only as Rinehart, had no callers. Determined to revamp his Image, he took to standing below his window shouting his own name. Rinehart's deception was seen uncovered, and his name became a byword at Harvard rebellions. At one time its very mention in the Yard was a staple ingredient for mixing instant riot...