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...instructor who introduces Frank does not explain a thing, he says, "Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Robert Frank...
...farm, Scott plays chess, bridge and golf with neighbors. His wife, a strong, warm woman, is, in the phrase of a family friend, "an anchor in George's life." Colleen herself credits Scott's self-control. "When G.C. isn't drinking, up here he becomes the most prosaic of gentlemen." Not so prosaic, however, as to accept what many people consider the honor of an Academy Award nomination. This month, cited for Patton, he declined again. "I don't give a damn about it," he says in a voice like a sonic boom. "I'm making too much money anyway...
...Internal Revenue Service Gentlemen...
...equal admissions rather than to determine a specific ratio in the report. By keeping separate admissions offices Harvard is implicitly accepting the current admissions policy. There is nothing to indicate-short of tremendous student pressure-that this policy will change. The understanding between Harvard and Radcliffe is that the "gentlemen's agreement" whereby Radcliffe admits no more than 330 freshmen per year will continue under the new contract. Steiner feels that, "We were not in a position to resolve the admissions ratio question for four years. I would not assume that the new contract would specify the number of women...
MANY Chicagoans talk of the suburb of Evanston as the straitlaced capital of the North Shore-national headquarters of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, the stodgy bastion of proper matrons and upright WASP gentlemen, all of them scarcely more liberal than the Chicago Tribune's late Colonel Robert R. McCormick. In fact, as City Planner Richard Carter says, Evanston is "a microcosm of a larger city, diversified in income, ethnically, racially and every other way." It ranks high in affluence: a $12,200 a year median income in 1968. Yet Evanston's 80,000 population includes...