Word: attend
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Students who plan to attend the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences next year will have to file their applications by December 1 instead of the former January 10 deadline...
...very little discrimination in the admission of Negroes in our outstanding universities and colleges today, there are still mighty few Negroes in evidence on many of our finest campuses. The channels of communication are weak. Very few Negroes apply. So long as a large part of all Negroes attend inferior schools, they cannot hold their own in the objective college entrance examination. And of course, lower Negro incomes mean that fewer Negro families can afford the heavy expense of higher education. Our colleges and universities should step up their active search for Negro applicants...
...five hours after his ad-libbed tribute to Valerie, Chuck Percy wearily returned to his $230,000, three-acre estate, Windward, on the Lake Michigan shore in Chicago's elegant suburb of Kenilworth. Valerie was in her bedroom watching television. She had decided earlier that day not to attend a "Dance-for-Percy" party on the North Shore; she dined at home with two young men who were working for the campaign, and retired shortly after 10 p.m. Her twin sister Sharon was in another room. Another of Percy's daughters, Gail, 13, was asleep; his sons, Roger...
...mystic, a pacifist and a lady-killer who bums around the countryside with a harpy seeking faith cures for her cancer. He gets to feel that he is something of a healer himself, and sees people who are not there. For a while, this unpleasant freak and sister Nellie attend something called "the Jago circle," "playing at vice" and "doing things the bourgeoisie don't dare," though what this could be is anybody's guess...
Vain Hope? Zambia, whose economy is closely linked to Rhodesia's, threatened to leave the Commonwealth entirely. Five African heads of state found excuses not to attend the conference, and Tanzania's Julius Nyerere refused even to send a delegation in his place. Sierra Leone's Sir Albert Margai, one of the four African Premiers who showed up in person, apparently came to the meeting for the sole purpose of attacking Harold Wilson: in a bitter two-hour tirade, he accused the British leader of everything from duplicity to being "anti-African...