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Most U.S. colleges use the S.A.T.s with considerable sophistication and plead with both parents and students not to regard a low score as a guarantee that an application will be rejected. "If we get a boy out of a Harlem slum who scores 490," explains Harvard Admissions Dean Chase Peterson, "we know that compares to the 610 scored by a boy out of Newton." In general, colleges tend to rely much more heavily on high school records, recommendations of teachers and alumni associations, and personal interviews. Schools are far more interested in such traits as motivation, curiosity, self-discipline...
...Goodman found himself fighting for his life. Hoisting Gene's body over his shoulder, and using his free hand to throw rocks and branches at the attack ing animals, Goodman ran as fast as he could. As he neared his home, the dogs finally gave up the chase. Goodman was so overwrought and exhausted that he passed out. Later, a posse of about 50 neighbors and lawmen found the other boy. He had been dragged to an area about 200 yds. from where his brother died. His body was gnawed almost beyond recognition...
Americans also feel that other nations could do more to pull up their technological socks. "It surprises us in the U.S.," Chase Manhattan Chairman David Rockefeller bluntly told a Paris meeting of businessmen, "that you pay relatively little attention to management training and to training in some of the newer scientific disciplines. The American advantage comes not so much from the discovery of new ideas and methods as from their application. It has to do basically with capabilities in management, engineering and marketing, in short, the willingness to take risks and to accept the change...
...business. The U.S. continued to be prosperous; its economy, the abundance of which mankind holds in awe and envy, simply fell short of optimistic expectations. Western Europe experienced its slowest economic growth in a decade-but growth, however slow, remains growth. As William Butler, vice president of the Chase Manhattan Bank, puts it: "Never have so many had it so good and felt so badly about...
...script was a dead letter. Once, when the writer happened onto the set, Hope called: "If you hear any of your own dialogue, yell bingo." A typical exchange, from Road to Utopia -Lamour: "You're facetious." Hope: "Keep politics out of this." Yet by 1962, when the great chase and all the hokey detours finally ended with The Road to Hong Kong, the seven Road shows had grossed over $50 million...