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Statistics like these suggest that getting into Harvard may depend on what your alumni interviewer had for lunch. Which is not too far from the truth. Dr. Chase N. Peterson, now Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid, says, "We are justified and obligated to trust a hunch...
...Hunch material can be found almost anywhere. One applicant in the early sixties, for example, concluded his autobiographical essay with the sentence, "I aspire to become a student at Harvard so that I may live and work with the creme de la creme." That young man from Illinois had an academic rating of 2, and achievement scores over 780 in both American History and Chemistry. But his personal rating was 4, and he was rejected. "That kind of phrase can ruin you," Peterson says...
...team to Hanover to face his old mentor in a game that could put Dartmouth in position to lead the League or give the Big Red a shot at passing the Green. Both squads looked very disappointing last week, accumulating only two touchdowns each against Columbia and Brown. The hunch here, though, is that Cornell's demoralization is the more complete and Dartmouth will triumph...
Biologist Wald, 60, whose abilities as a lecturer in Harvard's "Nat Sci 5" have made him one of the great college teachers in the U.S. (TIME cover, May 6, 1966), has been primarily concerned with the eye's chemical makeup and reactions. Pursuing a "hunch" in the early 1930s, he discovered the presence of vitamin A in the retina, then went on to determine its presence and complex workings in the visual pigment. Now, he says with undiminished excitement, "we're on the edge of a whole series of new things" in knowledge...
...Davy Crockett hats and Batman costumes. Until six weeks ago, the same could have been said of Hula Hoops, which in a profitable six months in 1958 racked up worldwide sales of 70 million. But Wham-O Manufacturing Corp., which started the first craze, had a hunch that hoops were good for another twirl. The novelty that was needed was noise. So Wham-O put half-a-dozen ¼-in.-diameter ball bearings inside each hollow hoop to give it a whirry sound, brightened the plastic colors, and called it the New Shoop Shoop Hula Hoop. Test-marketed this summer...