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...city garbage-truck driver. Stan's big brother Ed chose one way up-boxing-and died after being knocked out in his ninth pro fight. Stan's way led to top marks at mostly Negro David Starr Jordan High School, thence to a full athletic scholarship at Whittier College, where his size (6 ft. 4 in.. 204 Ib.) and blinding speed (9.8 sec. for the 100-yd. dash) made him an All-America end in small-college football. He also kept A-minus grades in his political science major, was student-body president. Turning down pro football...
...Whittier, Calif...
...Hughes Tool Co.. a giant defense contractor. The loan, which went to support the ailing grocery and restaurant business of Nixon's brother Donald, was made secretly through a Hughes attorney and secured by a filling-station lot owned by Nixon's mother in hometown Whittier. Donald went broke the following year, and the filling station property-on which a commercial lender had offered to put up only $92.000-was accepted by Hughes in full settlement of the debt...
...School reforms are percolating downward. Fresh from rewriting U.S. high school physics, M.I.T.'s Jerrold Zacharias and colleagues are busily doing the same for elementary school science. Astronomy starts in fourth grade in East Whittier, Calif., and geometry in second grade in Burlingame. Calif. At San Francisco's Herbert Hoover Junior High School, which last year had 14-year-olds earning college credits in math. 40 of this year's seventh-graders will be so well started that once they get to college they may get M.A.s in math before they graduate...
...just one day. He would help dispatch unemployed Negroes from Little Rock to Boston and ask Senate Candidate Teddy Kennedy to care for them at Hyannisport. He would shuttle others off to Richard Nixon with demands to have the former Vice President establish them in his home town of Whittier, Calif...