Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...answer Harris' question, TIME and Sperry Rand's Univac Division agreed to help conduct the first unofficial nationwide presidential primary, called CHOICE 68. On April 24, a total of more than 1,000,000 bal lots were cast on campuses from Maine to California. Merely by punching out perforations in computer cards, they indicated their first, second and third choices for President, their views on the Viet Nam war, and their attitudes toward urban problems. Fed into the UNIVAC 1108's memory bank in Washington, the results were tabulated and analyzed within 15 minutes after the "command...
...article "The Search for Something Else" [April 26] is a remarkably concise and exact expression of what has become the policy of the nation's leading colleges toward its admissions candidates. The extent to which this policy has manifested itself these past two years is noteworthy. We cannot help feeling sorry for the high-school senior who has maintained a straight A average for four years and has scored consistently in the mid-to-upper 700s on the College Board exams-and who is rejected at the school of his choice simply because he is not "different." Nevertheless...
...lantern-jawed New York millionaire had held "as many important jobs as any man in our history," with the possible exception of John Quincy Adams.* At 76, Harriman is hard of hearing, but his vigor of mind and body remain unimpaired-and perhaps a touch of deafness might even help in talks that are likely to drone on for months, perhaps years...
...absolute surprise," said Rockefeller about the Massachusetts victory. "The first break. A big help." It was nearly all of that. The only name on the Bay State Republican ballot was Governor John Volpe, running as a favorite son. Neither Rockefeller nor Nixon had organized a write-in campaign. A minuscule, orphaned draft-Rockefeller group had remained barely alive, able to spend a grand total of $1,500 during the six weeks before primary...
...fund will be used to finance underprivileged students--preferably Afro-Americans--in areas not usually covered by Harvard financial aid grants, committee-member Peter F. Hagerty '68 said yesterday. A student needing special tutoring before coming to Harvard, for example, would be eligible for the fund's help, he explained...