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Perhaps the concept of the multiversity includes a degree of chauvinism: the Berkeley application asks how long one has been a resident of California. (For that matter, the first page features a huge grid in which one is supposed to summarize one's attendance at the University of California; later one discovers a smaller box for attendance at other universities.) Although Harvard may feel unduly proud of the internationalism implied in the directive that "the enclosed application should be completed in English," one should point out another type of broad-mindedness: the application asks one to list "secondary and preparatory...
...course, if the people who are recommending you do check the most flattering boxes on the grid and your essays do indeed place your life and interests in the top 1-2 per cent, you may get into graduate school and/or win the fellowship. But don't rejoice prematurely--remember, the army sends out its congratulatory letters before you even bother to fill out the forms
...cover combat in World War II, Woodward returned to the Trib as editor of the sports department. He hired writers of the caliber of Red Smith and horse racing Expert Joe Palmer. He purged his pages of what he called "unholy jargon," banishing such words as horsehide, pigskin, donnybrook, grid battles. When a reporter wrote that someone had "belted a home run," Woodward whipped off his own belt and shouted, "Here, let's see you hit a home run with this." Such was Woodward's pride in his shop that when the managing editor once suggested running...
...collapse of the Lake Ontario loop pulled to the rescue a massive 1,500,000 kw. from New York City plus power from New England members of CANUSE, the vast power grid serving northeastern America. Within minutes their systems also went dead...
Power experts were still at odds over ways of preventing a single malfunction from pulling down an entire grid. Though FPC Chairman Joseph Swidler was preparing a report for President Johnson, final recommendations will take more intensive studies. Meanwhile, there were signs that Congress will be asked to tighten FPC's police powers. Next week a special House Commerce subcommittee investigating the blackout will hold its first meeting in Washington...