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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...likeable book. The story of A.L. Levine, millionaire Jewish politico, and his accidental campaign for the presidency of an America grown tired and fat and eager for a new face, is most of what any novel should be: funny, touching, slapstick across the surface but with a strong subtle current running along the seabed, a roaring good story with a moral that doesn't have to hit you across the head. Halberstam, who won the 1953 Dana Reed Prize in his days as managing editor of The Crimson, has certainly proven that his days in medical school...

Author: By Francis J. Connolly, | Title: Citizen Levine | 9/11/1978 | See Source »

...current admissions staff has more officers who are members of minority groups and all admissions officers have minority recruitment as part of their concern, Jewett says. The heart of the recruitment program, the student recruiters, has a new coordinator, Constance L. Rice '78, who succeeds Robert F. Young '74. Young was critical of the student recruiting program, saying that it lacked professionalism. Rice says this year students will have access to the office computers to write letters to a larger pool of potential applicants, and will be more coordinated with the efforts of administrators in Byerly Hall. "It will...

Author: By Joseph B. White, | Title: Harvard After Bakke: Is Diversity Enough? | 9/11/1978 | See Source »

...into the College over the last ten years. What remains to be seen is whether Harvard's cautious approach, based on the ideal of "diversity" will make further significant progress. On one side, "diversity" offers no guarantee that percentages of minorities in the College will not fall below their current low levels while on the other side it offers no protection against covert quota-setting...

Author: By Joseph B. White, | Title: Harvard After Bakke: Is Diversity Enough? | 9/11/1978 | See Source »

...Sadat has also dug in his heels and twice refused to continue talks. But Begin does seem to bear by far the greatest responsibility for the current impasse. Many U.S. officials feel that the Israeli leader does not really want peace on anything but his own terms. Perhaps it would be more fair to say that Begin considers his terms essential to Israel's survival and Israel's future?even more essential, indeed, than a peace treaty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Meeting At Camp David | 9/11/1978 | See Source »

...they are free to jet from high-paying tournaments to still higher paying exhibitions to the stratospheric payoffs of staged-for-TV challenge matches. Once Jack Kramer, Lew Hoad, Pancho Gonzales and Ken Rosewall dreamed of an organized tour circuit that would provide steady income to pro regulars. The current Big Three-Borg, Connors and Argentina's Guillermo Vilas -can now ply their trade on two multimillion-dollar tours, Lamar Hunt's World Championship Tennis and the Grand Prix circuit. However, this year none of them has deigned to play in enough W.C.T. and G.P. events to qualify...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: New Home for a Troubled Game | 9/11/1978 | See Source »

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