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...officials dismay Whitla post lottery study found that the proportion of students top ranked as athletes by the admissions office actually jumped in Kirkland from 18 89 percent to 22.94 percent. The College average is 7 51 per cent next year's lowest House. Lowell is projected to have but 1 28 percent...
...their differences, those listeners appeared to share one basic and important reaction: relief that the Administration, after 16 months of delay and internal dissent, had come forth with a plan to get the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. back to the strategic arms bargaining table. The only group that expressed dismay at the President's intentions were some hard-line U.S. conservatives, who feel betrayed by Reagan's more moderate approach...
...Bonn, a West German government spokesman declared his Cabinet's "dismay" at the toll of human life in the South Atlantic; Chancellor Helmut Schmidt was widely reported to have told the Cabinet that "there can be no blank check of solidarity with Britain." In Paris, the Socialist government of President François Mitterrand stated its "consternation" over the widening hostilities, and the French Council of Ministers called for a U.N.-negotiated settlement. The Italian government was more circumspect in its pronouncements, but popular pressure for a rethinking of all-out support for Britain was increasing; one reason...
Nevertheless, the current crisis could ease Argentina into closer ties with the Soviet Union, its No. 1 trading partner. To the dismay of the Carter Administration, the junta undermined the 1980 U.S. grain embargo against Moscow, and now sells 77% of Argentina's crop to the Soviets. "It is altogether possible that the Argentines may want to give the Soviets base rights," says Richard Helms, former director of the CIA. Even if it were to keep the Kremlin at arm's length, an Argentina humiliated by the outcome of the Falklands crisis could be dangerously destabilizing...
DIED. Don Wilson, 81, orotund announcer and foil for Jack Benny on radio and TV for more than 30 years; of a blood clot to the brain; in Palm Springs, Calif. In his most familiar routine, Wilson protested, "But, Jack," in mock dismay at not being able to get the commercial started...