Word: answer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Seated at the table that usually accommodates the directors of the nation's 13th-largest corporation are four or five Harvard alumni. Seated way down at the other end is a high school senior, seeking admission to the College, about to begin his interview, a half-hour question-and-answer session that would leave almost any applicant a bit shaken...
...three years ago Radcliffe did not recruting. With a tiny staff and no money for travelling, the staff stayed close to home. Radcliffe lacks the extensive network that enables Harvard to reach almost any school in the country. The purpose of their visit is to talk to students and answer questions about Radcliffe. They also like to get a feel for the kind of school the candidates attend...
...Caroline Kennedy this year, but turned down kin of Katherine Hepburn. Harvard also turned a cold shoulder to the lights of show biz when it turned down Gregory Peck's son. Peck, following in a long line of disappointed fathers, called the admissions office to find out why. "My answer to these people," Reardon said, "is this is a fallible committee. We're not like the Pope. It could be wrong, but this is the decision of the committee...
...said residents told the overseers that Harvard's Long Range Plan of 1974 did not adequately answer community questions, that the matter of the Agassiz down-zoning was not handled well, and that Harvard acted selfishly in its favoring of a Red Line subway plan that would be more costly and less favorable to some community leaders than routes other interest groups in Cambridge favored...
...court may not provide a final answer. The special facts of the case, which involve the barroom-brawl murder conviction of Jesse Fowler, may prompt one or more Justices to shift their position. More important, Fowler's death sentence grew out of a North Carolina Supreme Court ruling that reinterpreted existing legislation and read into it mandatory death penalties. The Justices may choose to rule only that such judicial construction was improper and thus leave to another day the broader question. If that happens, death-row inmates would once again have to hope that the redoubtable Justice Douglas...