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...this seemed pretty untouchable to Samant's well-to-do Brahman family back in Bombay. His father, a high school principal and English teacher, balked at both the sarangi and art as a career for his son-after all, the sarangi is played to accompany dancing prostitutes, and painting is an illustrator's skill. At first, Samant clerked for a British oil company, but at 20 he began five years of study at Bombay's Sir J. J. School of Art. He copied Bashaivali and Jain miniatures to learn design and color, but, says he, "they...
...guesswork of a tea-leaf reader. Professor Harry Kalven Jr., director of an extensive University of Chicago jury study, confirms the belief of most prosecutors and defense attorneys that persons on the lower rungs of the economic and social ladder tend to be more sympathetic to the accused. The well-to-do, on the other hand, are likely to have greater respect for authority and the law. The most elite panel, New York State's "blue-ribbon" jury, is used almost exclusively to hear complex civil and criminal cases. It is composed of persons with high intellectual and technical...
Give or take a characteristic, Newton resembles many another well-to-do suburb. It has a small factory district, an average family income of $14,946, a population roughly divided among Jews, Catholics and Protestants, with about 100 Negro families. Newton's schoolchildren are usually two years ahead of national norms in reading; around 60% go on to four-year colleges. With enrollment (18,000) up 60% since 1950, the town has spent $19 million to expand a school plant that now includes one junior college, two high schools, five junior highs and 25 grade schools. Annual spending...
Resigning as Navy Secretary in 1962 to run for a two-year term as Governor, Connally won, mainly on a pitch for better education so that Texas could continue shifting from an agricultural to an industrial economy. "People told me only the well-to-do cared about education. Well, that's wrong. My father cared about his children's education. The laborer cares. The tenant farmer cares. The city man cares. The average man can't send his son to Yale. But he knows his son needs a good education...
Standing Ovation. No one was more surprised than Princeton. Ivy League colleges give scholarships to athletes only if they are needy as well as muscular. Son of a well-to-do bank president, Bradley did not qualify. So he paid to play, led the Princeton freshmen to a 10-4 season and scored 30.6 points a game. An All-America last year as a sophomore, he averaged 27.3 points a game; the Tigers won the Ivy League title and a berth in the N.C.A.A. playoffs. Against tough St. Joseph's in the playoffs, Bradley was the whole show, picking...