Word: cheevers
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FASARGENT CHEEVER 32, who chaired a committee reviewing Medical School admissions policies, says that the recommendations the committee made to the Med School faculty last week regarding the equal admissions of men and women amount to an attempt to "let nature have its chance to work a balance here." Cheever explains that although the report mentions no quotas, it envisions a period when men and women will apply in equal numbers to the Med School and when the accepted class will reflect, in its ratio of men to women, the proportion of qualified men to qualified women in the applicant...
...express such good faith towards an admissions office which has repeatedly accepted a greater percentage of women than the percentage in the applicant pool. Last year, for example, the admissions committee accepted one-third women from a pool that was 28-per-cent female. But if, as the Cheever report urges, recruitment measures are introduced, and the number of women applicants increases to parity, there is no guarantee here that the class will contain equal numbers. Dr. Leon Eisenberg, chairman of the admissions committee, says that constituencies in the largely male Med School faculty that would oppose...
...dedication to goals and not quotas in its resolutions regarding minority acceptances. Here again, the admissions committee at the Medical School has over the last two years-apparently demonstrated good intentions, by accepting minority students in a reported 20-per-cent proportion that matches the nation's ratio. The Cheever report recommends that if anything, minority acceptances should exceed one fifth, to keep up with an increase in the proportion in the population of minorities below...
...horror that I had some business talents as well as literary ones." He joined Simon & Schuster in 1955, left to become editor-in-chief at Knopf in 1968. Convinced that good writing sells, Gottlieb has won a devoted following of top authors. Among those he personally edits are John Cheever, Doris Lessing, Anthony Burgess, John le Carre, Jessica Mitford...
...rehearsal pianist for Broadway shows, beginning with Funny Girl in 1964. He squeezed in night school too, graduating cum laude from Queens College. In 1968, at a Broadway party, the pianist met Producer Sam Spiegel, who chatted about a film he was planning to make from John Cheever's short story The Swimmer. Three days later Hamlisch handed him the completed theme for the movie...