Word: classed
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Talent. Marshal Lott is much less flamboyant than even the new Quadros. He began his military career methodically, slogging through military school by dint of grueling hard work. Once he complained to his English-descended father about a brilliant classmate who was always getting the best marks in class. "He has talent," said Cadet Lott. "Yes," said his father, "but if you study hard you will conquer talent...
Lott studied his way to top spot in his class, but took 30 years to reach a rather undistinguished colonelcy. It took another 14 years to reach the War Ministry, where his rigid devotion to duty led him to stage his 1955 "preventive coup" to ensure the threatened inauguration of constitutionally elected President Juscelino Kubitschek...
...Religion and Psychiatry, a licensed psychiatric clinic sponsored by Manhattan's Marble Collegiate Church, Director Arthur Tingue is convinced that ministers' wives can cope with the physical aspects of their jobs, but not the psychological. "Ministers are underpaid," he says, "but wives are expected to maintain middle-class homes." Sexual difficulties produce a high toll. "Ministers seem to attract women who are not very responsive. Then the women find their husbands as active sexually as other men, and they are subject to pressure and accusations of frigidity...
...university, the finest we have. A very funny thing happened to me there. . . . All year I sat next to the same man; he took laborious notes, I didn't. At the end of the year this fellow turned to me and asked me why I brought the notebook to class at all. I told him that I used my notebook as a kind of decoy. 'Excuse me,' replied this fellow, 'but isn't it pronounced decoy?" Anyway, I thought that was a very Harvard story...
Today the Council also reported that nearly $4000--an increase of $700 over last year's record high--was received in cash and pledge contributions from undergraduates at registration. As in previous years, the freshman class made far the largest contribution, and this year accounted for 63 per cent of the total of cash contributions...