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Lilit is a straight-A student at Los Angeles' Lycée Français. She is also a regular visitor to the University of Southern California, where she takes a course in music theory and continues violin instruction with Alice Schoenfeld, her teacher since Lilit was 7½. The proud possessor of a 1704 Stradivarius lent her by a Beverly Hills collector of fine musical instruments, Lilit practices one hour at 6:30 a.m., one hour after school, one hour just before bedtime -and professes not to mind it: "Practicing just makes me want to do it more...
...brilliant, almost straight-A student throughout his years in the Montclair public school system, Aldrin went on to West Point, where he finished third in a class of 475. After combat duty in Korea, he was assigned to the U.S. Air Force Academy as aide to the dean of the faculty, then flew fighters in West Germany. He began thinking about joining the space program, but decided that he needed more education. After getting his doctorate from M.I.T. in 1963?46 years after his father had received his bachelor's degree there?Aldrin was selected for the third group...
...During his combined freshman-senior year, Tom earned twelve more credit hours by taking exams in courses that he did not even attend, finished the remaining 8½ credits by the old-fashioned method of going to classes. Last week he graduated summa cum laude from Wittenberg with a straight-A average. "This way of going to college has all sorts of advantages," he says, "not the least of which is that I've got three more years of life to play with...
...back to visit twice, and two weeks ago wrote to the local newspaper to ask for clippings of stories about his son. Heinz, who soon became Henry, adapted much more easily. In Germany, he had been an average student. In Manhattan's George Washington High School, he became a straight-A pupil...
...aren't sure when we will have the wedding," said Nancy, 22 and an English and political science graduate of the University of South Carolina. Said her 66-year-old fiance: "She's very smart. A straight-A student...