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...Dartmouth's Director of Admissions Edward T. Chamberlain Jr. said that "every admissions officer in the United States would give five years of his life" if he could use an IBM machine to cull freshmen. But no one has yet found the right punch-card formula, Chamberlain mused, a trifle sadly, in the Saturday Evening Post. "One wag predicts it is more likely we shall find a way to punch holes in the candidates and run them through the machines...
...this effect, Khrushchev continued to denigrate Britain's Prime Minister. Chatting with newsmen as he awaited Macmillan's ar rival for a private conference with him, Khrushchev, with deliberate offensiveness, compared him with a man whose policies Macmillan, as a prewar M.P., had bitterly opposed-Neville Chamberlain. Said Khrushchev: "Chamberlain said he had come to terms with Hitler and there would be no war. Macmillan said he had talked with Adenauer and there would be no war." Face to face with Macmillan in a two-hour talk, Khrushchev was more courteous-but so intransigent that Macmillan canceled plans...
...costumes sometimes too flossy, but in one department of stagecraft the company had scored a clear triumph: New York, which last year had forced the women to wear brassieres, last week permitted them to dance bare-breasted-presumably in deference to the perceptive ruling by the British Lord Chamberlain's Office that Ballets Africains...
...younger brother William is a successful West End playwright who once wrote a hit comedy (Chiltern Hundreds) spoofing Gentle Alec's unexpected loss of the family's "safe" Lanarkshire seat in the 1945 Labor landslide election. In his 31 years in politics, Home served as Neville Chamberlain's parliamentary private secretary (accompanying Chamberlain to Munich in 1938 and riding with him behind Hitler and Mussolini through cheering Nazi crowds). After succeeding to the earldom in 1951 and taking his seat in the House of Lords he served as Scottish Secretary and later as Commonwealth Secretary and leader...
Whether or not they agree, other admissions men have turned to all sorts of "intangible" criteria. As Dartmouth's Director Edward T. Chamberlain Jr. puts it: "We say in the net we think this boy is a better boy for Dartmouth (to hell with the numbers) and we take that...