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...Susan Fletcher...
...people have put a lot of work into killing the novel-Leon Uris and Fletcher Knebel and Irving Wallace and all those names which make you want to be sick. Tons of paper have been wasted on bringing their effluents before the public, and tons of celluloid on converting them to major motion pictures. Although each of these authors has sold millions of books, none of them will be remembered a decade from now, because they all share one common outstanding quality-forgetability...
Weltner was soundly beaten by Republican Fletcher Thompson when he tried to win back his old Fifth District seat in 1968. He decided against running again in 1970, and the Democratic nomination went to Rev. Andrew Young, a former aide to Martin Luther King who lost to Thompson by an even wider margin last November...
...Class of '73 was 30 black students and that they were committed to finding a black admissions officer. "Her statement ignored our demands completely and was only a restatement of goals which the black students and the Admissions Department had agreed upon way back in May," Diorita C. Fletcher '71, one of the black students negotiating with Radcliffe said. "It was brought to our attention in such a way as to be insulting...
...least one group at the School, led by professor Fletcher Watson, a research associate in the Center for Studies in Education and Development, will still focus on curricular reform in the public schools, subject by subject. But the main thrust will now be in researching children's development, "individually and within society." Sizer said, and "how to intervene humanely"in their growth. Administrative posts and other positions of "leverage" in public education will increasingly be the ones the School hopes to fill...