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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Stanford, in addition to the 71 Negroes already accepted for next year (against 52 a year ago), this month said it planned to admit and provide special tutoring for ten "marginal minority-group students" who do not meet normal academic requirements. Brown, in a freshman class of 720, expects to have 25 Negroes next year, up from 13 last year. Princeton, which accepted 23 Negroes a year ago, has tapped more than three times as many, 76, for its incoming freshman class...
...devotes three hours a day to writing, occupying a cluttered room above a restaurant off the Ipswich green. At home, wearing tattered white sneakers, baggy pants, a turtleneck jersey and a shaggy haircut, he romps with his four children-Elizabeth, Michael, David and Miranda-or plays in a recorder group with Mary. On a winter morning, he might emerge from his 13-room white saltbox house, scoop up an armful of snow and heave ten decimal points against the stop sign on the corner. On a summer morning, he can go out to his small garden and properly cultivate...
...perhaps at Matt and Terry Gallagher's. The women can be depended upon to keep the co-op nursery school running smoothly. And thank heavens for Irene Saltz, without whose all-fired energy Tarbox would never have achieved such an effective League of Women Voters or Fair Housing Group. Quiet, lovely town, Tarbox. Or so it seems...
...noting that the Updikes are the ringleaders of a group of like-minded couples whom the older Ipswichers call the Junior Jet Set. Updike has organized endless basketball, volleyball and touch-football games, led the jet set on skiing trips, and presided over countless intramural parties. Says one member of the set: "What we have evolved is a ritual. It sets up a rhythm where we are all available to each other. It's rather as if all of us belong to a family." Adds another friend without elaboration: "You can't sustain that very long without...
...couples to what used to be called adult responsibilities, and even they are occasionally trundled about from bed to bed to make room for their elders. "All these goings-on would be purely lyrical, like nymphs and satyrs in a grove," said Updike recently, "except for the group of distressed and neglected children...