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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Otto and Mary Krai, who live on a farm near Hastings, Minn., have one main goal in life: they want to educate their son. So last year they took seven-year-old Tommy out of Lakeland-Afton public school after watching him vegetate on a soda-pop diet of "life-adjustment" courses. Mary Krai is a former high school teacher; her 35-year-old husband is a professional mathematician. The Krals decided to school their bright but not prodigious boy at home (TIME, March 2). Tommy's six-or-seven-hours-a-day curriculum: arithmetic, grammar, German, geography, composition...
...Foreign runners are traditionally superior in distance races, but victories by 19-year-old University of Oregon Freshman Dyrol Burleson at 1,500 meters (3:47.5),Air Force Lieut. Bill Dellinger at 5,000 meters (14:47.6), and little (5ft. 5½ in., 128 Ibs.) Max Truex at 10,000 meters (31:22.4) gave the U.S. high hopes for next year...
AGAIN ! the headlines shouted one day last January, and millions of readers pounced on the latest chapter in the amazing adventures of Ferdinand Waldo ("Fred") Demara Jr., the most spectacular impostor of modern times. A sick, brilliant, 37-year-old alter-egotist who never finished high school, Demara by main nerve and native intelligence has carried off careers as military surgeon, psychology professor, cancer researcher, dean of a school of philosophy, language teacher, law student, assistant prison warden, Trappist monk and the devil knows what else (TIME, Dec. 3, 1951; Feb. 25, 1957). Perhaps the most astonishing thing about this...
...their estates if they died). Initially, these dividends would be small (e.g., Homer's share, based on 1958 figures, would have been only $15,586), but over the years they could conceivably build up to the point where a future president might get more than under the old bonus system. No Bethlehem executive is so optimistic as to expect bonuses to return to what were the really good old days. In 1929 President Eugene Grace set an alltime record by collecting $12,000 as salary. $1,623,753 as bonus...
...Fight. For old Bill Keck, it was the end of a long fight to stay independent in an age of integration and merger. A California wildcatter who first struck it rich in 1922, he steadfastly refused to go into refining and marketing, or merge with anyone who did. But now, at 79, he is growing weary of the fight and realizes that a producer must have markets to remain strong. Says a Keck aide: "It has simply become too difficult to do business. Without refinery facilities, we have no import quotas of our own and are entirely at the mercy...