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Yale bans student parkers and gives out faculty parking permits on an elaborate point system based on the academic pecking order. Given the fewest points, green instructors are parked so far from their offices that it almost pays to leave the car at home. Only when a professor is finally admitted to the lot of his choice does he feel that he has truly arrived at Yale...
Under the present method of selection, Masters of Houses having the fewest applicants take precedence in selecting students from the pool of those who have not been accepted by the Houses of their choice...
...decision marks the first time that interviews have been cancelled since the House system was established in 1930. Although preference figures are not released, it is understood that Kirkland has attracted the fewest first-choice applications in most of the last few years...
...draws in detail a haunting character-part bounder, part victim, part humble appraiser of how badly he has played the hand that life has chosen to deal him. Blessed or not, Scott seems to say, the poor in spirit will never inherit the earth. But, possessed of the fewest illusions about themselves, they alone can afford to view the world with pure compassion...
Outside his own New York, Rockefeller's bomb drew the most cheers and fewest jeers in Michigan. "The conservatives," said Detroit's County Chairman Peter Spivack, "have been deluded into believing they can write off 10% of the nation. This is not only a wrong position; it's a silly one." Paul Bagwell, sometime G.O.P. candidate for Governor (1958 and 1960), said the party owed Rockefeller "a great debt of gratitude for speaking out." But Michigan's liking for the Rockefeller statement may have been partly traceable to hopes that a Rockefeller-Goldwater deadlock...