Word: existing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...will no longer exist in the re-organized structure of the Radcliffe administration...
...Joint Policy Committee, the group of eight officials from both colleges which originally drafted the new agreement, will continue to exist. The committee is expected to review the agreement again...
...First of all, they selected for slavery only those with a lot of brawn and ability to work hard: only the best. Second, only the strongest survived the long voyage. We may already have a very selected group of blacks in this country." While recognizing that great physical differences exist between members of the same race-as is notably evident when 7-ft. 2½-in. Kareem Abdul-Jab-bar and 5-ft. 10-in. Tiny Archibald confront one another in an N.B.A. game -scientists have also found that, on the average, there are measurable differences between the races...
...very efficient running. But we don't know whether the development is a result of the running they do, or whether the better running is due to the physical capability." Other authorities, like Harvard Pathology Professor Gustave Dammin, go even further and insist that any physical differences that exist between blacks and whites have no significant bearing on athletic performance. Says Dr. Dammin: "I do not know of anything regarding blacks' physiques that would give them any special athletic advantage...
...Trapped by bad debts, Backhouse had dropped out of Oxford. In 1898 he showed up in China with faked references; 15 years later he shipped the Bodleian some 17,000 volumes of chinoiserie; later he contributed 18 manuscripts that were blatant forgeries and promised other treasures that did not exist. During World War I, as a sub rosa operative, he embroiled high British officials and even the King in a plot to procure from neutral China at least 200,000 rifles. They never materialized. A few years later, he flimflammed an American firm that sought to print banknotes...