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...Upward Bound is the federal antipoverty program's teen-age counterpart of the preschool Head Start program. Now two years old, it has taken 20,000 high school students whose grades failed to match their ability, sent them to 220 college campuses for summertime remedial work in an attempt to prepare more children from low-income families for a college education. One survey of the 1965 summer group shows that 80% did enter college and only 23% failed to finish their first year-roughly the average freshman-class dropout rate. The program, says the Office of Economic Opportunity...
...programs, and OEO officials concede that some bungled the job. One project in San Francisco, for example, fell apart when it took in too many Negro "black power" advocates. Moreover, even the most imaginative ventures in precollege training have had their moments of pain and anxiety for the Upward Bounders. The program's national director, Richard T. Frost, argues that such disappointments and failures were inevitable in an experiment dealing with what he calls "the losers," whose intelligence is often indicated by "how imaginative they are in getting into trouble...
Panic. One of Upward Bound's more successful programs is Western Washington State's Project Overcome, which carefully guided 50 teenagers, about one-third of them Negroes, through two pleasant summers in Bellingham before inviting them to join the 5,400 regular students on campus last fall. After the cozy summer tutoring in such basic subjects as reading, history and math, most of the 50 panicked amid the confusion of registration and the difficulty of lengthy reading assignments. An Indian girl took one look at the teeming campus, grabbed the next bus to her home in Yakima...
...Real Pressure. The Treasury boss also asked Congress to lift its long-established 41% interest-rate ceiling on Government bonds of more than five years maturity lest there be "a sharp rise in short-term rates." Another upward pressure on interest rates is the U.S. balance-of-payments deficit; last week the Commerce Department reported that the deficit jumped 19% from the fourth quarter of 1966, to $539 million during this year's first quarter...
...basketball players who were never going to grow past 6 ft. and 170 Ibs. was limited. He went to the University of Florida on a golf scholarship, turned pro after graduation. In 1963, his first full season on the tour, Beard earned $17,938, and he has progressed steadily upward ever since. His official winnings so far this season are $50,993; his unflappable, mechanical game reminds some of his fellow pros of Ben Hogan. Doug Ford, for one, insists that "Frank is the most consistent player, the best swinger on the tour." Beard himself is not too sure...