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...whether the parents are right for the school. The key to acceptance often lies in the references they supply for their child, influential names collected from family friends or at cocktail parties and business lunches. But an admissions director deluged with reference letters may observe the old rule of thumb that "a thick folder indicates a thick boy." An edge is conceded to parents with prominent names or prominent bank accounts; yet any hint that they are trying to buy their way in, explains Henry D. Tiffany Jr., headmaster of Allen-Stevenson, "is practically the kiss of death...
Several times, Clark's car conked out completely-only to start again. With one lap to go, the crowd was on its feet as the public address announcer ticked off Clark's dwindling lead. Seven seconds, six, five, four, three-and at that instant, right thumb raised high in the classic gesture of victory, Jimmy Clark swept under the checkered flag. By the barest of margins, a scant 100 yds., he had won his fourth straight Grand Prix race of the season...
...general had even tougher words for a U.S. correspondent on his plane. Said he: "I'll govern this country like a military command. If I say the price of rice should drop, what I want to see is a price drop. Even if I have to . . ." Cocking his thumb and forefinger like a pistol, he added grimly: "Twenty or thirty people...
...Australia's Roy Emerson, 28: London's Grass Courts Championship by default over the U.S.'s Dennis Ralston, 22, who pulled out an hour before the match because of an injured thumb that had become so swollen that "I couldn't grip the racket...
...devoted philanthropist and sup porter of Democratic Party causes, and a warm friend of President Johnson's at whose side she sat last month at a' Waldorf dinner for party contributors. New Yorkers know her best as the city's unofficial green thumb...