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...disclosed that a majority of New York's students are now Negroes (29.3%) or Puerto Ricans (20.9%)-a situation common to many other major cities.-As it happens, the Negroes and Puerto Ricans, who see education as a way for their children to escape the ghetto, are no happier about the schools than the whites. "They put all their faith in the schools," says a consultant to the Office of Economic Opportunity, "but they know the schools are doing a lousy job on their kids and feel trapped." It is also true, of course, that many ghetto parents expect...
Former Crimson all-Ivy halfback Leo said that he "couldn't be happier" over being chosen by the Patriots. The Boston receiving corps is older and slower than most, so his chances of making the team appear good. And Leo will once again be playing near his home -- he starred at Everett High School before coming to Harvard...
...over a newspaper he is resented as an outsider and a lot of local feeling builds up against him. In Cleveland last week just the opposite happened. Announcing the purchase of the 125-year-old Plain Dealer by Newhouse, Publisher Tom Vail, 40, added that he could not be happier. "What we have now is a newspaperman committed to our programs. His first interest is the paper and its future...
...more and more time into Miles until I reached the point that I could not do that and continue at Harvard," Monro said. "I made my decision to leave last spring," he added, "and gave Harvard a year's notice to arrange for a successor. I couldn't be happier with the man who will be recommended to the overseers as my successor...
...description of the good fun in the front lines: "Most of us awoke each morning with a cheerful curiosity about what the day would bring" (this from a chapter happily entitled "All my Friends are Dead"), and the good fun in Saigon: "Saigon also has a happier and more wholesome side. There are schools, orphanages, and hospitals...