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...talk of academic freedom is made flesh. The uproar over a provision in the new bill requiring medical schools to reserve places in their third year class for students who have completed two years in a foreign school and passed part one of the national board exam, is no freak accident...
That's the formula for a real heartbreaker, and that's exactly what the Radcliffe field hockey team got on Saturday, a 1-0 loss on a freak goal that might well hold up as the only blot on an otherwise marvelous season...
Bowdoin's unprecedented break with the great American tradition of standardized testing has turned out to be a freak. Elsewhere in the country, nothing much changed; and down in Princeton, N.J., Educational Testing Service (ETS) was expanding its operations into a host of new fields. Apart from some 1.5 million pre- and elementary school children just entering the mill, 20,000 teenagers applying to exclusive private schools, 1.8 million high school students heading for college, 300,000 applicants to graduate schools, 74,000 considering business careers, and 120,000 hoping to be lawyers--all of whom will have to sharpen...
...also totally innocent, a not entirely farfetched projection of nations and races that the capitalist countries have for years exploited. In the new Kong, the oil company executives want to exhibit him as a symbol of corporate might, just as the movie producer wanted to exploit him as a freak in the original. It is Kong's awakening to this outrage as much as his need to find the girl that sends him to his last stand atop-this time-the World Trade Center. That final destructive binge could be seen-and lines in the script lightly suggest...
...Neil overcame that affliction and moved on to her next sports: motorcycle and car racing. A total speed freak, she has raced bikes, sports cars, dragsters and dune buggies. While revving up her motorcycle engine at a rally one day, she met Stunt Man Duffy Hambleton, 39. Marriage followed, and O'Neil became a housewife. But not for long. She soon got bored staying home, and in 1974 O'Neil began a rigorous two-year training program under Hambleton to become a stunt woman...