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Another way beleagued Harvard apologists explain the "smartness" of their Radcliffe counterparts concerns admissions and the old economic law of selectivity. Radcliffe, with entering classes of about 300, naturally can accept a higher percentage of the "cream of the crop" than Harvard, which admits a class of 1100, so the argument runs...
...more proficient in verbal skills, whereas boy's abilities tend toward quantitative aptitudes. This "genuine difference" results from "reinforcement." From earliest childhood, girls are "reinforced" in clear writing and expression; boys, on the other hand, are often directed toward more quantitative problems. This difference also helps to explain the girls' complaints that boys' interest are "profane"; boys tend to go into fields like math, chemistry, or psychology instead of more culturally oriented subjects like Fine Arts or Literature. "In the long run, however, this all works out for the best," Pettigrew concluded. "The girls can bring their more exotic interests...
Another reason why some Radcliffe girls may devote more time to their courses stems from future professional plans. Cliffies who go into graduate work continue in Arts and Sciences, rather than entering professional schools as boys tend to do. This helps explain the male-female mark disparity in Social Relations, for example, since the girls are interested in the field as a whole rather than as a stepping-stone before future professional training...
...ASKED FOR EVIDENCE ! cried the London Daily Herald. THERE IS NOT A SHRED OF IT IN THE WHITE PAPER. With varying degrees of indignation, all but two of London's newspapers agreed: the Tory government's White Paper, explaining the wave of arrests in the Central African Federation, spoke of "trends toward violence" in Nyasaland but never once offered any proof of the much-touted "R day" white massacre that had triggered all the uproar, the 50-odd African deaths and the 500 arrests (TIME, March 30). The Colonial Office limply tried to explain that "we could...
Today no one lifts an eyebrow when his neighbor shows up in a foreign car, and no one need explain or apologize for driving one. With thousands of war babies coming of driving age and crying for their own cars, countless families have found the foreign car an inexpensive playmate for Junior-and a less precious article to entrust to freewheeling Mom. The number of two-car families has grown to 17% of all car owners. Now the three-car family is coming along; there are an estimated 375,000 such families...