Word: eighth
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Four of the eight policemen had been suspended by the department for their conduct in the disorders. Seven of the eight were charged with beating various newsmen or students. The eighth, Lieut. Carl Dobrich, was charged with two counts of perjury stemming from his denial before the grand jury that he had taken part in the assaults. Some Chicago police, noting that 43 of their colleagues have already been disciplined in the wake of the convention disorders, are grumbling that the newly indicted cops were "thrown to the wolves...
Another approach is to consolidate existing schools. In San Francisco last year, four schools were restructured; three now teach the first six grades only, while the fourth has become a common seventh-and eighth-grade school fed by the others. Successfully mixed in the new junior high are twelve-and 13-year-olds from four disparate parishes: a black ghetto, a largely middle-class white neighborhood, a Mexican-American neighborhood and a Japanese community where the school enrolls many Buddhists. Similar consolidations have been suggested by a new archdiocesan-education board in Chicago, where ethnic parish lines sometimes place poorly...
...Crimson apologizes for a gross inaccuracy in yesterday's edition. The headline over the swimming story stated that Harvard finished tenth. The swimmers came in eighth, as the story correctly reported...
...senior forward finished his Harvard career as the Crimson's eighth leading scorer...
...Crimson swimmers had a disappointing third and final day at the Eastern Seaboard Championships Saturday at Yale, falling to eighth place in the team standings. But they scored twice as many points as they did last year and set six Harvard records to help make up for the frustration...