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...done a lot of work in the last three weeks and the boys put out a nice team effort against Tufts." coach Dana Getchell said. "But this weekend is an entirely different story...
School Superintendent Dana Whitmer believes it is too early to appraise the results. "It will depend on whether there are improvements in education," he insists. But last week an early return came in. Some 250 white teachers joined 170 black colleagues in a one-day walkout to enforce their demand for the appointment of a black assistant superintendent. All of the strikers lost a day's pay and risked losing their jobs. It was the first time the whites and blacks of Pontiac's schools had made common cause over such an issue...
Peterson calls the 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...
...just a biological tug-of-war, though. To judge by Crichton's example, the role that the clipper ship used to play in 19th century fiction now is handled by the space program (both novelistically and cinematically, for Kubrick's 2001 held much the same appeal). Where Melville and Dana used to fascinate their readers with descriptions of rigging and trade routes, Crichton delivers mini-lectures on space research, micro-biology, and biochemistry. Meanwhile, names like Wald and DeBakey weave in and out of the narrative. Most of this material is, of course, quite elementary; some will probably find...
...Lerner takes his readers along as Carol--a summie--and Tim--a Harvard student whom veteran observers recognize as a local movie impressario--wend their way from the Blue Parrot to Tim's Dana St. apartment and a happening on the Charles. Carol sends her circle pin skimming into the river...