Word: classing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...during this weekend in Williamsburg, Va., these three-and 99 others, drawn two apiece from 50 states plus the District of Columbia-are absorbing the interest of adults, for they have been judged the brightest and best leaders of the nation's 3.1 million high school seniors, class...
...first birthday party with his family in 16 years, and he had looked forward to celebrating with a home-cooked meal and a cake baked by his stepmother. But it was more an occasion for sadness than joy for Marine Private First Class Robert Russell Garwood, 33, the last American P.O.W. to come home from Viet Nam. Instead of a hero's welcome, he was greeted on his return by a volley of accusations by other ex-P.O.W.s that he was actually a deserter who had willingly helped the Viet Cong beat and interrogate American prisoners. Last week...
...Director Jim Rogers and three committee members contemplate a fat computer printout. It measures, in code, the credentials of the 11,421 high school seniors who have applied to Brown. Next to each applicant's name, a long string of numbers and cryptic abbreviations shows college board scores, class rank, grade-point average and a preliminary rating for academic promise and personal quality on a scale of 1 to 6. Other symbols reveal more: "LEG 1" is a legacy, the son of a Brown alumnus. "M1" is a black; "M8" a Chicano. "50" means the Brown football coach...
...know how you account for something like that," Dingman said, adding that only 14 per cent of the fresh men class overall did not receive one of their top three House choices...
University officials said yesterday they will not rerun the housing lottery for the Class of '82, adding that they gave no rooming group or housing bloc preferential treatment in the assignment process...