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...became a statistician. Up north, in Ellensburg, Wash., William Martin was the same sort of fellow. He was a good chess player and a mean hand at the piano, and he made a hobby of hypnotism. At the University of Washington he worked hard at his studies, was a topnotch math and science student. When the two young bachelors met during Navy duty in Japan, they became fast friends. When they both signed up to work for the super-secret National Security Agency in Washington three years ago, they seemed ready and willing to settle down to a life...
...local level. How can the head of the house, father of the brood, refuse to campaign for school bonds or stand for the board of education-particularly when his firm urges him to be civic-minded? The result is that Suburbia often shines with the kind of topnotch talent that makes troubled big-city fathers wince with envy. In Kansas City's suburban Prairie Village, for example, the $1-a-year mayor is a lawyer with a growing practice, the president of the city council is a Procter & Gamble Co. division manager and the head of the village planning...
...last week O.C.U. had raised $2,170.-000. in amounts ranging from $1 to $500.-000. The money will give O.C.U. topnotch science equipment and books; it will pay for sending faculty members to M.I.T. for training. Most important, it will be used to set up 75 four-year scholarships (average cost: $1,000 a year) for the ablest youngsters O.C.U. can find. Score card to date: 21 scholarships, awarded to high school seniors throughout Oklahoma and Texas. Casting a bit of sarcasm at Oklahoma U.. Oilman McGee said: "We aim to recruit bright students just like Bud Wilkinson...
Which boy would Princeton accept? All of them were topnotch candidates, but Princeton chose one. The hairsplitting decision: Bruce Blair, admitted on the strength of his general well-rounded record and strong aptitude-test scores. Ohle and Hatcher were undismayed. They both got into Brown, their first choice on the basis of a spring trip to it and Princeton. "A party school" was the way Hatcher saw Princeton. "I am willing to sacrifice Princeton's better name for what I think will be a better education...
What Lukens wanted was a topnotch summer science camp for his boy. Finding none good enough, he thought of starting his own. The clincher: a casual hotel conversation that Lukens overheard about Gushing Island in Maine's Casco Bay. Long a fashionable summer colony, the 156-acre island was the site of Fort Levett, an obsolete Army base for which the Government was vainly asking...