Word: offing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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¶ From the opening kickoff, Navy Halfback Joe Bellino (TIME, Oct. 24) dominated the big game against Army. The low-slung (5 ft. 9 in., 181 Ibs.) Navy star scuttled around tacklers on a 58-yd. run from his own 1-yd. line, later scored on a 4-yd. end...
¶ Baseball's rookie-of-the-year awards went to a pair of powerful youngsters who forgot about their averages and swung for the fences: in the National League, Los Angeles' Outfielder Frank Howard (6 ft. 7 in., 245 Ibs.), 24, batted .268 but hit 23 home runs...
Like every other gatekeeper at the nation's most besieged campuses, Amherst's harried Dean of Admission Eugene S. Wilson finds himself warning applicants against name brands in colleges. Says he: "Learning is something a student does with books and a teacher who cares. A student's...
In an adjoining box, TIME lists 50 private four-year liberal arts colleges that can give a good education to the high school senior who cannot get into Amherst & Co. Those listed are good, but not the only good ones. Some have long been topnotch, others are in the process...
High Standards. They also attract early bloomers: 63% of current freshmen at St. Paul's Macalester were in the upper 5% of their high school classes; 20 are National Merit Scholars. Missouri's West minster, where Winston Churchill made his "Iron Curtain" speech in 1946, boasts that not...