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...Winnetka...
...Most public high schools are at a distinct disadvantage-they must admit all who want to attend. However, there are schools that have enriched programs for top students. New Trier Township High in Winnetka, Ill., Newton (Mass.) High and Melbourne (Fla.) High are a few examples. For some big-city students attending selective high schools, such as New York City's crack Bronx High School of Science and Lowell High in San Francisco, the curriculum is every bit as rugged and the entrance competition as tough as at Andover...
...Winnetka...
Properly girt about with wash-and-wear shirts, Soby sets sail for Venice and is set upon by a pair of memorable literary harpies: Miss Mathilde Kollwitz, a mosquito-sized Winnetka music teacher who perennially knits a succession of moose-sized sweaters, and Miss Winifred Throop, a mountainous ex-headmistress who wears a red wig as proudly as she does her overgrown schoolgirl's faith in True Love...
...Fred Schoellkopf, a Dallas stock salesman who holds $200,000 worth of shares himself. Complained Chicago Investor E. C. Price, 72: "All you hear these days is that Government is investigating, investigating, investigating. When business needs all the encouragement it can get, all it gets is threats." Said a Winnetka, Ill., patent attorney: "The American economy would be all right if Kennedy would leave it alone...