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...never been much real pressure to hold spending in check, and budgets have ballooned accordingly. In 1980 per-pupil expenditure for operations and amortization exceeded $3,600 for the town's 1,922 schoolchildren, placing Weston in the ranks of educationally elite suburbs like Winnetka, Ill., whose New Trier East High School is widely looked upon as the best public secondary school in the country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Connecticut: Cutting to the Bone | 6/8/1981 | See Source »

Lowry's less experienced teammates overcame the Rhodies in less devastating fashion. Their one defeat came when Brankowski lost, 5-2, to Kathy Trier, after falling behind...

Author: By Stephen A. Herzenberg, | Title: Women Fencers Pierce Rhode Island College, 15-1 | 11/21/1978 | See Source »

Drankowski fenced hesitantly against Trier, losing most of her touches on Trier counter-attacks after parries of tentative straight lunges or beat attacks...

Author: By Stephen A. Herzenberg, | Title: Women Fencers Pierce Rhode Island College, 15-1 | 11/21/1978 | See Source »

...already looks like one. Bari Boshes, 17, a senior at New Trier East High School, in a suburb north of Chicago, was besieged with letters from Coe College, a small liberal arts school in Cedar Rapids, Iowa-and she had not even applied there. "Learn why we might be the right choice for you," implored the Coe admissions office...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: This University Wants YOU! | 5/29/1978 | See Source »

...Chicago real estate man, Rumsfeld attended the New Trier High School in Winnetka, Ill., gaining renown as a 150-lb. state wrestling champion. He won a scholarship to Princeton, married his high school sweetheart Joyce Pierson, and from 1954 to 1957 was a Navy pilot. Leaving the service as a lieutenant (j.g.), he became a congressional aide-and struck up a friendship with Michigan Representative Jerry Ford. In 1962 Rumsfeld began his own political career by winning the safe Republican congressional seat on Chicago's wealthy North Shore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: These Are My Guys' | 11/17/1975 | See Source »

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