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...Oregon's high schools. He found youngsters paying as much as $18 for a student-body card, $30 for other tickets, and $32 for class jewelry. Every dance steps up the bill. One father reported that it cost him $100 to dress his daughter for a prom that cost her date more than $20. The biggest cost: transportation. Though every school district runs buses, every teen-ager seems to want a car. The cost averages $65.28 a year and ranges...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Price of Status | 8/29/1960 | See Source »

With an eye on 1964, Rockefeller wants Nixon defeated in 1960. Rocky has prom ised to support the convention's nominee, but the Nixon forces have all but written off pivotal New York to the Democrats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: Banner with a Strange Device | 6/20/1960 | See Source »

...occasion was the annual stomp-and-holler staged by SHARE (Share Happily and Reap Endlessly), a charity for retarded children run by 63 Hollywood wives. The bash was wet, gaudy and bawdy, although there were a few touches straight out of the Ottawa Hills, Ohio, High School Junior prom-such as pink and blue balloons, some personally blown up by the wives, which further confused the week-end-on-Venus decor of Hollywood's Moulin Rouge. Costume dress was optional, but most of the folks came in their work clothes-Gary Cooper in Stetson and Levi's, Barbara...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOLLYWOOD: Fun Night | 5/23/1960 | See Source »

Like a chaperone at a high school prom, the Federal Trade Commission tapped Dancer Arthur Murray and his wife Kathryn on the shoulder last week, told them that some of their fast steps were out of line. The FTC objected particularly to the "misleading and deceptive" quizzes that it said the Murrays used to help build their $45 million-a-year business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MODERN LIVING: Watch Your Step | 4/11/1960 | See Source »

...skimmers. The festivities started Thursday with the traditional Cane Walk, in which the juniors parade around the campus wth bought ($1.30) or borrowed canes that symbolize the advancement from a wise fool to an to an upperclassman. A pep rally followed that night. On Friday night the Junir Prom took place, replete with Prom Queen and all the trappings. The fraternities made posters for the Navy football game, and a group of blazered, skimmered Penn humorists trotted out a she-goat with a sign saying, "Betty-Mistress of Bill." Bill, of course, is the justly famed goat. After an unsuccessful...

Author: By Michael S. Lottman, | Title: Pennsylvania Balances Actuality Against Hope of Valued Learning | 10/30/1959 | See Source »

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