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Many big-city high schools specialize in some vocation or art and draw commuter students from all over-but few offer the specialty that engages San Francisco's Lowell High School. It is an all-academic school that welcomes any youngster from any district on the basis of scholarly ability alone, and as a result is the No. 1 college-geared public school in the West...
...have demanded a jury trial. If each suit went to trial, the federal courts would be trying little else for years. But legal experts agree that, once the first suits set a pattern, cheaper and quicker out-of-court settlements are likely to become the rule. Nonetheless, many a youngster just starting law school may well earn his first few years' salary as a member of the bar working on the electrical-equipment suits...
...youngster in Tennessee, Robinson felt racial discrimination very strongly. "I spent the first 18 years of my life trying to figure out a way to poison the water supply," he said...
...chansons are about ordinary people who come to sad ends rather than bad ends. In Un Carbon Dansait, a slum-bred youngster dreams of being another Fred Astaire; Montand manages a brilliant satiric evocation of second-rate Astaire-the outflung white-gloved hands (without the gloves), the staccato rhythms tapped out on a walking stick like a hollow third leg, and the agitated centipede footwork interrupted with dazzling toothpasty smiles. The funniest number casts Montand as a feverish symphony conductor who snaps his baton, his Beethoven concert and his career in two to waltz off with a girl who cares...
...been supplied by Virgil Couch. From his cluttered office in Battle Creek (soon to be transferred to Washington. D.C.), Couch has worked for the past ten years to coax big business into the civil defense program. The son of a Purchase. Ky., railroadman. Couch won prizes as a youngster for his wheat crops by carefully sifting the kernels through a fine sieve, so that only the plumpest grains remained. His efforts in industrial civil defense have been equally meticulous. One of his favorite maxims: "You've got to arrive at solutions in advance-like Noah...