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...hope that we have not yet gotten to the point in this country where we have an elite of high IQs," insisted New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller while plumping for his new education bill that would help all students, not just brains. "I happen not to have such a high IQ," confessed Rocky, who nonetheless was Phi Beta Kappa at Dartmouth. "But I feel that I should have a right to get an education, too, and it shouldn't matter that my family doesn't have enough money to send me to college." Then, before he could...
...Masters and others debating the issue have been dealing with comparatively small numbers, Pusey said, and have not really been concerned with "expansion," "People have gotten emotional" recently about a long-standing issue, he remarked...
...added, "I'm sure the decision wasn't thought through thoroughly. Even though the jobs they found me were temporary, it was a big aid." Bigwood said he had gotten three jobs through the Office, "all of which would have been permanent, except for extenuating circumstances...
...practicing "his brand" of public services. In September of 1948 a friend invited him to breakfast to discuss a job as trouble shooter for the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations. When the friend's secretary called the next day to ask if Mr. Miller "had gotten his shots," he was understandably surprised. The breakfast was to be in Bangkok, Siam. Since then, he has worked with the FAO in Southeast Asia and the Middle East...
...haven't seen anything yet," he says. "I never really should have gotten into this business. But I did-and I found my judgment was excellent...