Word: hold
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...from. Michigan State's School of Journalism, Meyers served with distinction as a U.S. Marine in the Korean War. His 23-year career with Time Inc. has included posts as TIME'S associate publisher and advertising sales director, as well as the one he will continue to hold as a vice president of the company. A man of modesty and personal warmth who hastens to introduce himself as Jack and talks quietly of doing "the job at hand," Meyers has humanitarian concerns beyond the magazine; among other commitments, he serves as a member of the national board...
...Half a million sheep grazed New Hampshire's rocky hillsides. But when the Western prairies opened up it was possible to raise flocks of 20,000 or more animals. The New England industry went into a decline. Roughly a decade ago, when the thirst for things natural took hold in protest against the increasingly plastic quality of American life, sheep began making a comeback. Today there are roughly 6,000 sheep in New Hampshire mostly in small flocks of ten or 15 animals "When you consider that there are some single farms in the Midwest with 6,000 sheep...
Each day when the Illinois legislature is in session, women costumed as suffragists in blouses and long skirts hold a silent vigil in the state capitol. The women, like many others, are waiting for the legislators to vote on the Equal Rights Amendment. ERA will die if not approved by 38 states before March 22,1979, and Illinois, the one Northern industrial state yet to pass the measure, could be the 36th. Ratification there would keep alive the amendment's slim chance of approval before the deadline. Even ERA supporters concede that defeat in Illinois would make it nearly impossible...
Joseph Savage '78, who was not admitted to Harvard Law School after having been placed in the hold category, says he does not believe the LSATs played a major role in his rejection. "The people Harvard rejected from the hold category weren't the ones who got screwed. The people who were rejected early on, before the Law School knew about the error--they're the ones who got screwed," Savage says. He adds, "Standardized testing ought to be reviewed in general, I think, not only in the light of the LSAT screwup, but the MCATs...
...keep her busy. She hopes to be actively involved in writing the preliminary report of Epps's Committee on Race Relations this summer, and in general she feels her job provides her with a lot of leeway. Gibson believes most deans appreciate employee initiatives. "They don't try to hold you back or pigeonhole you. It's to Dean Epps's and my mutual benefit for me to take on more responsibility, and I can make my own job more interesting that way," she explains...