Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Mary Anne Schwalbe '55, director of admissions, had difficulty pinning down exactly what she looks for in an application. The admissions officers have no hard and fast rules they use to determine who gets into Harvard. The final decisions are made in committees, where staff members spend long hours debating candidates' qualifications. By April 15, the ordeal is over...
...Loeb Drama Center introductory meeting. The freshman avant garde will turn out en masse for this meeting. Because of a lack of interest and a general overproduction of shows freshmen can advance fast in Harvard dramatic circles. But most likely half the group that is kneeling on the theater rug in this jam-packed meeting is there simply to sign up to be ushers and get into the productions for free...
...much welfare recipients should get, how the payments should be shared by county and state governments and how ineligible recipients should be detected and removed from the rolls. Washington's computers and programmers proved too inflexible and too slow in handling all of the variations and fast-shifting rosters of eligible recipients...
...million soap followers, the fast and funny scenario may sound too good to be true. The average soap has a torturously slow plot so full of digression that weeks can go by before the heroine is forced to decide whether to paint her nails pink or red. Sex and violence only simmer; it can take years for marriage and divorce merely to be broached...
Guessing Games. The big question is how fast and how far oil prices will in fact rise and how much the increase may impede the recovery by draining away consumer purchasing power. Administration economists are increasingly sanguine. Their latest estimate is that because of decontrol the price of gasoline will rise only 3? a gallon, and the nation's total oil bill will go up only $5.3 billion over the next twelve months. Main reason for their optimism: a belief that stiff competition among oil companies resulting from a world glut of crude will keep the price increases moderate...