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Both David Cantelme '76 and Marton have benefitted from the bias toward junior colleges. Cantelme was admitted from Glendale Community College, a small junior college located in a suburb of Phoenix, Arizona. He was one of only two students admitted last year to Harvard during the "moratorium" on transfer admissions to the college. Due to overcrowding. Radcliffe continued to admit transfers--six residents and 14 non-residents, in all--"because we were never told not to," says Cohen...
...book has been praised by Psychoanalyst Erich Fromm, Economist John Kenneth Galbraith, Sociologist (and Socialist) Michael Harrington and other academicians. It has been vigorously denounced by multinational executives, including PepsiCo Chairman Donald Kendall, who says that the book displays an anti-growth bias that "sounds like a great leap backward to the Dark Ages." Both sides have ammunition: Global Reach is an odd blend of reasoned argument and far-out fantasy...
...debut, condolences again to the great Anne Bancroft. There has been, recently, a spate of movies about women -Alice Doesn 't Live Here Anymore, The Stepford Wives, A Woman Under the Influence-which has led to the suggestion that at last the American cinema is losing its masculine bias, that now there are lots of good roles for women and lots of good actresses to play them. Well, the actresses may be there, but the parts are not. Why would Anne Bancroft be in this movie otherwise...
...simply known, began her trade as an apprentice seamstress at the age of eleven in 1887, opened her own fashion house in 1912, and flourished till her retirement in 1940. She preferred to drape fabric on a wooden mannequin rather than sketch her designs. Her main innovation was the bias cut, in which cloth is scissored at an angle to the weave, rendering it more elastic and clingy. Her soft, often layered dresses moved with the wearer's body and helped to usher in the modern age of sensuous, nonconfining women's clothing...
Chaleff has misrepresented my conversation with him. My remarks were in no way an admission of bias in the original stories. The stories were accurate. They included all the most newsworthy material that we could go to press with. Again, I stand by them completely. Robert T. Garrett...