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...Allan J. Dershowitz, professor of Law, said yesterday he did not believe the Supreme Court could have rejected Edelin's appeal...
...case arose at the Medical School of the University of California at Davis, which reserves 16 out of 100 places in each entering class for minority students. That quota system at Davis was challenged by Civil Engineer Allan Bakke, 36, who has degrees from Minnesota and Stanford, and scored in the 95th percentile on his entrance tests. Bakke, a somewhat mysterious figure who refuses to be interviewed or photographed, says through a lawyer only that he finds engineering "unsatisfying" and that he believes medicine would be "more rewarding...
...Allan P. Slaff, assistant dean for administrative operations at the Business School, said yesterday "the parking office forgot to tell us that the undergraduates were supposed to park here. If they tell us that the undergraduates should be here, we will issue magnetic cards to them...
...Allan Robertson (1915-59), the chief maker and supplier of feathery balls, stitched a spherical bag out of cowhide which was then stuffed with boiled feathers. Enough feathers to fill a top hat were packed into each ball. The unreliable and easily rotted feathery endured until around 1848 when the discovery of gutta percha, an elastic gum found in the forests of Malaysia, sent shock waves through the golf industry...
...rise "from roaches to riches." He has 10% of Rocky, which U.A. hopes will gross more than $40 million and a five-picture contract with the studio. He is holding out for a seven-figure deal on his next project, a "great romantic gothic" movie about Edgar Allan Poe. He also wants to star in the upcoming version of Superman. But Marlon Brando, who will play Superman's father, has veto rights on casting. Says Sly: "I hope he doesn't think I do a cheap imitation of him in the love scene with the undershirt. Italians...