Word: vertex
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Vertex, who sired 1965 Derby Winner Lucky Debonair, Top Knight was a "very ugly, gangly colt," with a reputation for gimpy legs. "He may be a little odd-looking," admits Trainer Ray Metcalf. "Nobody particularly liked him-until he started putting those $100,000 purses in the bank...
These space-age children are taking an experimental science curriculum drawn up by University of California Physicist Robert Karplus, 32, whose specialty is not elementary school teaching but elementary particles. (Sample Karplus research paper: "Spectral Representations in Perturbation Theory-The Vertex Function.") A Vienna-born infant prodigy who could multiply four-digit numbers in his head before he went to first grade, Harvard-trained (Ph.D., 1948) Karplus got to worrying about schools after he became a father (three girls, two boys, a sixth child on the way). Listening to teachers talk about the problems of teaching science, he decided that...