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...many such teen-agers in the bleak reaches of upper Manhattan's slums, high school is a waste of time-and public money. More often than not they drop out before graduation to take dead-end jobs, in a few years send to school another generation of hopeless pupils. But to some 450 youngsters at Manhattan's George Washington High School and Junior High School 43, an experimental teaching and guidance program offers a fair chance to complete high school, and for the brightest, a hope of going on to college. This week, after more than two years...
...rumble of discontent in the bleak, brown Rif mountains of northern Morocco (TIME, Dec. 22) grew so loud that King Mohammed V and his politicians in Rabat could no longer ignore it. Last week gunshots, artillery fire and rocket explosions echoed through the Rif in the most serious challenge to the King's authority in the three years of Morocco's independence from France...
...many delights of the Reading Period, certainly none is more welcome than the Sunday serenade from the Lowell Bell Tower. Although these concerts provide, week in and week out, the greatest source of pleasure to the music-loving public in Cambridge, they seem particularly enjoyable at this otherwise bleak season of the year. One always fears that the pressures of studying may dampen the bell-ringers' wonted enthusiasm, and their devoted following was relieved by yesterday's unusually outstanding concert...
Elsewhere, the picture looks fairly bleak for tonight's meet: Cornell's Auble, facing Dave Skeels at 123, finished high in last year's Easterns, as did Vinton and Dunlop, pitted respectively against sophomore Nick Estabrook at 147, and Ted Robbins in the heavyweight class...
Chances that the Phillips Brooks House Blood Drive will reach its goal are "pretty bleak," after the fourth consecutive day of disappointing returns, Leon Rothenberg '60, co-chairman of the drive, said yesterday...