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Then came the crunch of meritocracy: besieged by more and more applicants, City kept raising the cutoff point for admission-from a high school grade average of 72% in 1920 to 85% in 1960. But now the city's newly arrived minorities were black, poor, lacking academic tradition and doing so disastrously in high school that college seemed impossible. Eight years ago, only 2% of C.U.N.Y. freshmen were nonwhite...
...compressed-by a ram that for an instant exerts a force of one ton-into a solid, bag-enclosed brick. The bag can be carried out for ordinary garbage pickup and a new paper bag inserted in the machine. Unlike garbage-disposal units installed under sinks, the Masher can crunch up bottles, cans and boxes...
...these possibilities intrigue you, if you would welcome the excitement of being part of a daily newspaper, come to 14 Plympton Street at 7:30 p.m. tonight or Wednesday. Cap'n Crunch will be waiting...
...then suddenly it was Saturday afternoon, late in the fourth quarter, and Harvard led by 12 points. Yovicsin looked up to the press box with a victory smile and pulled out a box of Cap'n Crunch and began eating it right there on the sidelines as the crowd roared its approval. Then I woke up. My teddy bear had fallen...
PENN-BROWN: Cap'n Crunch and I spent twice as long flipping coins on this one. Running Bear and Little White Dove both jumped in the river, and both drowned when the raging river pulled them down. But Running Bear stayed up a bit longer, and similarly, I think Brown will win this game today before both teams start on the merry path to the Ivy League cellar...