Word: cottoned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...docket system "a kind of quota based on the excellence of the boys involved." While it no doubt favors such places as Exeter and Andover, Peterson believes that "Harvard should maintain a Yankee flavor, and besides, schools like these were themselves selective in choosing their students." Dana M. Cotton, the senior member of the admissions committee with 23 years under his belt, points out that Exeter and Andover are not supplying as many Harvard students as they used to, "which the headmasters there understand but which is difficult to explain to a parent who sent his son to Andover...
N.F.L. PRE-SEASON GAME (CBS, 9 p.m. to conclusion). The Baltimore Colts v. the Dallas Cowboys from the Cotton Bowl in Dallas...
...President exercised an option to buy the remaining four-fifths of the surrounding grounds. This was done for him by a trustee, the Title Insurance and Trust Co. of Los Angeles. The trustee pays for the remaining four-fifths with $1,000,000 that Nixon borrowed from the Cotton Estate, previous owners of the spread. Out of this money comes the necessary $320,000 down payment, as well as the $80,000 for the principal payment and $60,000 in interest per year...
...Willots have invested little in new equipment. Instead, they have begun spreading into Africa in joint ventures with both the French and local governments. They have set up cotton mills and spinning plants in Bangui (Central African Republic) and Niamey (Niger), and they are negotiating about a third in Bamako (Mali...
...Homespun Cotton. "I take ideas from others," says Méndez Arceo. "I must enrich myself from others." But he adds touches of his own. For liturgical ceremonies, he wears only homespun cotton vestments and carries a plain wooden shepherd's crook; otherwise he just wears a baggy black clerical suit on his 6-ft. 2 in. frame, unembellished by either a pectoral cross or episcopal ring. His book-cluttered residence is staffed only by volunteer students; nearby nuns send in his meals. He spends much of the time each week rocketing around the dusty roads of his diocese...