Word: valedictorians
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...team didn't do quite as well his senior year, but Woolway--of course, the team captain--collected All League and All American honors. He corrects an error in the Harvard press guide that says he was number one in his class. "Not exactly valedictorian," he says. But close...
...When Terkel asks him if he could bribe a policeman after the revolution, Cortez encapsulates an entire mind of state: "No, because everybody a cop." Cortez's dream is simply to rise upon his failures-a vision not substantially different from Ted Turner's: "I never was valedictorian. I couldn't make the football team, I couldn't make the baseball team . . . That's kinda how I got into sailing...
Stanton, age 18, was the second-ranked player on the women's squash team and one of the country's top players. She was the valedictorian at the Millbrook Preparatory School last year and the school's squash champion...
...threw a wrench at him. He drove alone on highways for the first time at 13, and he had his first date at the same age. During his last week in high school, he played hooky and went to a movie; he was punished by not being chosen as valedictorian. He believed in UFOs as late as 1969, when he reported seeing one near a Lions Club in Leary...
...congressional campaigns. He won last week in a three-way race against Democratic Attorney Maurice Dantin of Columbia and Independent Mayor Charles Evers of Fayette, a black. Son of a retired public school principal, Cochran has been an achiever all his life: Eagle Scout, high school valedictorian, student body vice president at the University of Mississippi, honors graduate of the Ole Miss law school. Before running for Congress, he practiced law in Jackson. In the Senate, he hopes to land a seat on the Agriculture Committee, where he wants to protect Mississippi farmers from increased imports of beef and dairy...