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Reclining in rumpled old clothes and a shapeless nightcap in a Devon farmhouse, Partridge gives admirers the last word in biography: "I always wanted to become a writer, and I consider myself to be one." Before he began to assemble his reference books, "meant to entertain while they instruct," the Oxford-educated scholar lectured for two years at Manchester and London universities. But he quickly tired of repeating himself and tried his hand at short stories ("quite passable. Well, the New York Times thought so") and a novel ("plain bloody awful...
...listening for the coursing blood with a stethoscope pressed against the forearm. Instead, that job is done by a tiny microphone in the cuff, which sends its signals to the machine's miniature "brain"-tiny silicon chips or microprocessors. Programmed to recognize the noises, the microprocessors not only instruct the machine when to pump up and deflate the cuff, but also determine the exact time for taking the two readings. If there are any disturbing outside sounds or arm movements, Vita-Stat's machine flashes three zeros on the screen and refunds the customer's money...
Because Allan Bakke's suit provides an imperfect test case, the Court should instruct the U.C. Davis Medical School merely to reconsider Bakke's application for admission. The justices should tread confidently but lightly, however, and produce a unified majority opinion that supports affirmative action and compensatory programs for the disadvantaged, but still rules unconstitutional the use of strict quotas and ethnic background as factors in admissions decisions...
...remedy, the report urges different training for police, as well as a new reward system that will encourage officers to make "better" arrests. It cites, for example, a recent collaborative experiment in which Washington police and a team of prosecutors combined forces to instruct officers in such elementary matters as interviewing witnesses, verifying the accuracy of their information and advising them on what is expected of a witness in court. The report praises imaginative crime-control tactics like Washington's Operation Sting, in which phony fences were set up to receive stolen goods while officials secretly photographed and recorded...
...report, recommended that the elite concentrations be opened if the resources could be found to handle the influx of students. The report said the elite stature of the concentrations was unfair and unnecessary. The task force had only one dissenter, Alan E. Heimert '49, chairman of the committee of instruction of History and Literature, who argued that the task force failed to consider the interdisciplinary nature of History and Literature and the special combination of skills of interests the field requires from students. Heimert said that the provision to allocate more resources does not consider the scarcity of graduate students...