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...policy changes than any other group. As new members of the Harvard student community, blacks do not have an alumni or faculty power base to deal with admissions policy. WASPs and Jews have either one or both of these two powerful supports in their corner. As ethnic groups jockey for more slots in the College, places that belong to black students are least secure...
...Hemingway, his mysterious wife, a nonchalant killer, and a sadistic Jewish gangster. The gangster--a shadowy, sinister figure in so many films--is laughably absurd in this movie because he's so exaggerated. His idea of getting down to the bare essentials is stripping down to his dark blue jockey-shorts, so he can talk as a man with nothing to hide...
...night, Ford usually brings work home and goes through it while glancing up at TV (favorite programs: Cannon, McMillan and Wife). Only rarely do the Fords entertain at home or go out to eat. When they do, they usually eat seafood at Washington's Jockey Club or Sea Catch Restaurant. A dedicated weight watcher, Ford swims in his heated pool twice daily from March to November. Frequently he skips lunch, or has a dish of cottage cheese with ketchup in his office. He weighs 201 Ibs., just four more than during his football days at the University of Michigan...
...streakers are reported to police, who are not overly concerned anyway, but passers-by have been shaken by the spectacle several times in the past few weeks, and no one knows where they might strike next. Richard Kimball, a disc jockey for radio station KMET, is trying to correct that by broadcasting "streaker alerts" for Angelenos; when a racing nudist is spotted, listeners phone in their reports. Why do streakers streak? "By being unashamed of his body, a streaker can be unashamed of himself," says Shelley Duval, an assistant professor of psychology at the University of Southern California...
Wearing a long, chinchilla-trimmed orange paisley coat, velvet jockey cap and sturdy black lace-ups, Nevelson was a little doubtful about the location of her work among the luxury apartment houses of upper Park Avenue. Some passers-by agreed with her, though not for the same reason. "It's hideous!" exclaimed a matron only to be overruled by a threeyear-old completely attuned to Nevelson's wave length. "It isn't the Statue of Liberty," he cried. "What's it called...