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...hope that in this case he was quoted out of context. The essence of President Bok's policy is to increase the total undergraduate enrollment while improving the ratio between men and women. The implication in Reardon's statement that an increase in the number of undergraduate women will diminish the number of "interesting people and events at Harvard" is. I feel, most unfortunate. Adele Simmons '63 Dean, Jackson College for Women
...probability of a first marriage for a white woman reaches a peak between the ages of 22 and 24 and then declines sharply. For black women, the chances for marriage are good and remain about the same between the ages of 20 and 29, and then drastically diminish...
...Heat Engine. By thus "seeding" Ginger, scientists of Stormfury-a joint Commerce and Defense departments project-hoped to diminish the hurricane's awesome power, equivalent to the wallop of 400 20-megaton hydrogen bombs. Literally a huge heat engine, a hurricane is formed by spirals of warm, moist air rising from tropical seas. As the heat-packed vapor spins increasingly faster, it converges toward the eye of the storm and is forced upward; meanwhile within the eye, the temperature rises and pressure drops. Acting like a chimney, the walls of the warm vortex continue to refuel themselves...
...construction of a new system in which gold would be phased out. There are indications that the Europeans would accept such an approach. For example, Italian Treasury Minister Mario Ferrari-Aggradi recently suggested that dollar devaluation be part of a package deal that would include unspecified moves to diminish the international roles of both gold and dollars, and to increase the importance of Special Drawing Rights, which are a deliberately created form of international reserves...
...disputes between Indonesia and The Netherlands over former Dutch New Guinea and between Egypt and Saudi Arabia over Yemen. In Viet Nam during the tumultuous Tet offensive of 1968, and later through all the growing pains of Viet Nam's fumbling efforts at democracy, Bunker did nothing to diminish his reputation. Now President Thieu's intransigence in the face of Bunker's efforts to ensure a fair election has proved a profound disappointment to the septuagenarian diplomat. He is on his last assignment, and the unwarranted blemish at the end of an otherwise superlative career hurts deeply...