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...Delivery. The son of a Phoenix College math and sociology teacher, Long began putting the shot in grammar school, started to show real promise at North Phoenix High School under Track Coach Vernon Wolfe, onetime University of Southern California pole vaulter. Wolfe put him to work lifting weights, had him study movies of O'Brien ("You might say he was a sort of hero of mine then." says Dallas). Slowly he mastered O'Brien's 180° body-spin delivery. Despite the fact that he was picked as an all-state tackle, Long gave up football...
Instead of worrying about applicants, the scientists would do better to study their advising program, the possibility of a College math-science requirement, and the various pressures which tend to force the freshman away from concentration in the natural sciences...
...College is admitting people who are "totally illiterate since they have no knowledge of science or math--the language of our time," George B. Kistiakowsky, Abbott and James Lawrence Professor of Chemistry, charged yesterday...
...genuine difference" results from "reinforcement." From earliest childhood, girls are "reinforced" in clear writing and expression; boys, on the other hand, are often directed toward more quantitative problems. This difference also helps to explain the girls' complaints that boys' interest are "profane"; boys tend to go into fields like math, chemistry, or psychology instead of more culturally oriented subjects like Fine Arts or Literature. "In the long run, however, this all works out for the best," Pettigrew concluded. "The girls can bring their more exotic interests into their Westport home, and supply their money-earning husbands with a cultural basis...
...much flexibility as possible, however, should be preserved. A flat requirement in math would cost Harvard much talent and serve only as a gesture of academic superiority...