Word: factors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...does seem that a more systematic process is in order. When Birge says of interviewing, "I have to rely on instinct, how the boy looks to me. It's sort of a sixth sense," one has the uneasy feeling that a very large chance is being taken. (A mitigating factor here is the Admissions Office's well-placed faith in teachers' reports; Glimp says, "A front may fool an interviewer, but not usually a teacher...
...four years in Cambridge, the Program for Harvard College was the most important physical factor. The Program reached its stride in late March, 1958, when a nationally-broadcast show, "The Case for the College," emphasized Harvard's need for unlimited wealth, conveniently limited to $82.5 million. As money flowed in, old buildings disappeared: the Mather squash courts, Cambridge tenements behind Dunster, the Radcliffe Health Center, and, most lamentably, Cronin's, fell to the wreckers. The University expanded upward, with seven-story Quincy (irreverently dubbed the "aircraft carrier by the Charles"), 12-story Leverett, the ten-story Health Center...
...soon as the committee announced its aims, the money began rolling in. Cardinal Spellman gave $5,000. William D. Pawley, onetime ambassador to Peru and Brazil, contributed $25,000. Los Angeles' John ("Jake the Barber") Factor, a Prohibition-era hoodlum who got kidnaped by other hoodlums in 1933 and knows all about ransoms sent...
...United States must realize that Europe is merely seeking the economic structure which seems the key to greatness--namely, an integrated regional market with complete factor mobility. History has already provided the United States, Russia, and China with such a market. Europe seeks the same, and in so doing asks a change in American attitudes. Europe having risen up from poverty with American aid, now asks to be groomed for partnership in a strong Western Alliance...
...field, the Crimson's depth was the decisive factor. The team swept all four spots in the broad jump; Marty Beckwith was first with a leap of 21 ft., 10 in. and Chuck Azikiwe was six inches behind him. Tom Blodgett and Alan Albright completed the Crimson sweep...