Word: culver
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hock-High in Horses. Happily contradicting this gloomy picture is the better military academy, more academic than military, which is actually a first-rate college preparatory school. Perhaps the best example is Indiana's big (838 boys) Culver Military Academy on the shores of Lake Maxinkuckee. Last week Culver was putting on a $5,000,000 fund-raising campaign for a "Program for Excellence" that will create 70 new scholarships, build a center for alumni and parents, endow faculty salaries with $2,250,000. Even without all this, Culver has more excellence than most civilian schools...
...Culver is a 1,400-acre complex of parapets and playing fields that looms out of monotonous farmland like a Hollywood blend of West Point, Dunsinane and Fort Laramie. The school is hock-high in horses-140 of them-plus an indoor polo field, 150 boats, twelve football fields, 15 tennis courts, a bakery and a barbershop, as well as a 44-room hotel and a 64-room motel for visiting parents and girls down for dances. But most of all, Culver has academic status: 99.2% of its graduates have gone to college (and not predominantly to service academies-only...
Down by the Riverside. Appalled by the growing decay, Newburgh's city council last fall went looking for a businesslike city manager. The council's choice was brash, balding Joseph McDowell Mitchell, 39, who had already served in administrative jobs in Culver City, Calif., and Marple Township, Pa. Mitchell ordered a survey of the welfare program, discovered that Newburgh's relief expenditures -$983,000 out of an overall city budget of $3,134,000 for 1961-came to more than the city spent on police and fire protection. He seemed shocked to learn that most...
...film doomed soon to dry and crumble into powder? Not if loving care can prevent it. In an aluminum can sealed in an air-conditioned, constant temperature vault at MGM's Culver City studios lies one of the most valuable objects of its weight in existence: the master negative of G.W.T.W. Beside it rests the picture's master print, "the platinum yardstick" by which the colors of all new prints are measured. As long as these masters are in reasonably good shape, G.W.T.W. is safe. Prints can be "enhanced," if worst comes to worst, and even...
...note that your book reviewer (Story for Icarus) and the Culver illustrator like their Minotaur with a human body and a bull-like head. How come? Ovid, of course, is evasive, but old Bulfinch (ponder the possibilities in that name!) tells it just the other way around. A minor existential choice, perhaps, but not, indeed, without its psychological implications...