Word: scoring
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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John North led the Crimson rifilemen with 278 points, not enough to surpass M.I.T.'s leading individual score of 287. The Crimson team average of 273 was not too far behind North's total, but the Engineers' 284 average proved the deciding factor...
...together with the American Hospital Association, Association of American Medical Colleges and Federation of State Medical Boards, created the Educational Council for Foreign Medical Graduates. Its job: to set standards for foreign-trained doctors, administer qualifying tests. To win permission to work in a U.S. hospital, a candidate must score 75% or better on the Educational Council exam. If he scores 70% to 74%, he can stay in the U.S., bone up to take the exams again...
...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 sweep. Half-time score: Navy 17, Army 0. Then Army rallied for two touchdowns, and suddenly Bellino was in danger of becoming the Navy goat when he fumbled the ball. But when Army tried a long pass in the closing seconds, there was Bellino to intercept on the one, run back...
...Vermont's tiny Marlboro College, founded in 1946 on three old farms in the Green Mountains. "We don't fit any stereotype," says President Thomas Ragle, 32, who came to teach and became president instead. Ragle is looking for "the creative intellectual, who may or may not score high on college boards." Not even accredited yet. Marlboro makes every student take a two-day, 16-hour comprehensive exam covering all fields. Flunkers may try again, but must pass to graduate. Also required: a rigorous research project so independently pursued that a student might even go off to Europe...
...list of expert writers, from Quentin Reynolds (The Battle of Britain), William L. Shirer (Berlin Diary) and Richard Tregaskis (Guadalcanal Diary), to Hollywood Scenarists Beirne Lay Jr. (12 O'Clock High) and Robert Pirosh (Battleground). And firmly but unobtrusively in the background is a suitably martial, original musical score written by Richard Rodgers...