Word: talentedly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Fulltime Enrollment. To get slum kids into prep schools as fulltime students, the Independent School Talent Search Program, the Rockefeller Foundation and Dartmouth have pooled resources in a pioneering plan called ABC (A Better Chance). "All kinds of money is going begging in good colleges that want Negroes," explains Dartmouth Associate Dean Charles Dey, director of ABC. "In fact the odds are in favor of disadvantaged Negroes' being admitted over disadvantaged whites. But the colleges can't lower their standards, and the Negroes can't meet them because they come from inferior secondary schools." ABC wants...
...down as a rare vintage year for movie actresses. The new Sylvas, Sophies and Sentas not only have body; they show as well the promise of potential fame. Individually, they are as dissimilar as Chianti, Burgundy and Liebfraumilch. What they have in common is training, intelligence and talent. They...
With the civil rights issue flaming across the U.S., the story about what Alvin Dark had said was sure to create a furor. Dark, whose talent-loaded Giants were still sputtering along in second place, one game back of the Philadelphia Phillies, sat down in San Francisco to discuss his woes with a visiting sportswriter, Stan Isaacs, columnist for Newsday, a Long Island, N.Y., daily. "We have trouble," Isaacs quoted Dark as saying, "because we have so many Negro and Spanish-speaking ball players on this team. They are just not able to perform up to the white ball players...
Born. To Geraldine Gleason, 25, elder daughter of TV's indestructible Fat Man, and John Chutuk, 26, Manhattan talent agent: their first child, a son; in Manhattan...
...wicked, witty satire." Witty it is; wickedly satirical it certainly isn't. On the one hand, England's upperclass elite is painted as being comprised of persons wearing the right tie, speaking the proper accent, boasting at least four quarterings of nobility, and lacking any suspicion of brains or talent. Yet both this society, and an ambitious young man's relentless efforts to crash it, are viewed with a benign complacency that weakens any satiric intent...