Word: toms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...prodigy, Tom is a prodigious toiler who started taking college courses while still at Shawnee High School in Springfield, Ohio, trained himself to read 750 words a minute, and arrived at Wittenberg last fall having already earned 15½ of the 36 credits needed for graduation. During his combined freshman-senior year, Tom earned twelve more credit hours by taking exams in courses that he did not even attend, finished the remaining 8½ credits by the old-fashioned method of going to classes. Last week he graduated summa cum laude from Wittenberg with a straight-A average. "This...
...Tom Casten, 26, Columbia, is entering the corporate world because he argues that "business is the only institution that has maintained its credibility in the ghetto. The blacks have been badly deprived of management experience, and if we can help them over that, we can go a long way toward solving our social problems." Casten spent four years in the Marines, made money as a part-time computer consultant while in graduate school and was co-founder of a Columbia business students' counseling service for Harlem entrepreneurs. He will continue that kind of work by directing venture-capital investments...
...time they splashed down in the Pacific last week, Apollo 10 Astronauts Tom Stafford, Eugene Cernan and John Young had erased just about all doubt that the U.S. can meet its goal of landing men on the moon before the end of 1970. Even as the astronauts were being welcomed aboard the recovery carrier Princeton, American space officials were looking confidently ahead to the Apollo 11 lunar-landing mission now scheduled for July. Said Thomas Paine, head of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration in Houston: "Today, this moment, with the Apollo 10 crew safely on board, we know...
...Washington's Arena Stage, where the revamped play is now running, Kopit has interspersed the two elements without gaining any visible harmony of mood or purpose. One redeeming element is the staging by Director Gene Frankel: the menacing beat of tom-toms, eerie flickering lights, harsh ritual dances and the brooding presence of totemic animal masks give the play a body that the text lacks. Stacy Keach's Buffalo Bill is pistol-bright as the showman, but the man within remains tantalizingly masked...
Died. Mitzi Green, 48, child star of the Shirley Temple era, who counted 14 films among her credits by the time she was twelve, including Tom Sawyer, co-starring Jackie Coogan, and Little Orphan Annie, then largely faded from sight; of cancer; in Huntington Beach, Calif...