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Even in 1851, Chicago was too toddling for the stern, teetotaling Methodists who founded Northwestern University. So they located their new school to the north, and then secured its purity by forbidding the sale of liquor within a four-mile radius of the campus. Evanston, the town that grew up around the university, thus became so dry that the Woman's Christian Temperance Union felt safe enough to make Evanston its national headquarters...
...ability to pay, leaving one wing white and the other black. The school is planning to integrate them. Northwestern University is initiating a two-year program to prepare members of minority groups for entrance to medical school. Conducted in Chicago's South Side ghetto rather than the leafy Evanston campus, the program gives qualified students preliminary scientific training and exposure to patients. It also seeks to encourage them to practice in doctor-short ghettos...
...Evanston, Ill., Northwestern University raised the price of its football programs from 50¢ to 75¢ this season. Irate fans cried illegal procedure, and last week the IRS threw Northwestern for a loss: the programs have dropped back to 50?...
...MURPHY Evanston...
...situation in Connecticut was special-but not the anger at politicians who seem to mislead the public. A milder form of that anger was directed here and there at the Administration for continuing to issue rosy proclamations about the economy. Republican James Scheurenbrand, a bank president in Evanston, Ill., plans to vote for Nixon again, but he recently objected that "glowing statements from Washington are at variance with what people are experiencing. There is too much hard sell. It's eroding the Administration's credibility. People are looking for real answers." Republican Senator William Roth of Delaware recently...