Word: list
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...devise and machine could execute. Last winter, just after new Space Administrator T. Keith Glennan ordered the space shoot, the Air Force, Navy and Marines selected the nation's no likeliest military test pilots (requirement: at least 1,500 flight hours). Clattering IBM punch-card selectors pared the list to 69 men of optimum size, health, intelligence. Offered a chance to volunteer...
...other hand, Mrs. Killborne said she had received no complaint that a landlord broke the pledge. If this happens, the Registry would drop the offender from the apartment list...
...Registry was one of the first University housing offices to refuse to list the rooms of discriminatory landlords. Last October the University required every landlord requesting the Registry's aid to sign a statement saying he would rent to any University employees or students "regardless of their race, creed, color, or nationality...
Positive results of the PBH anti-discriminatory rulling are hard to assess, Mrs. Killborne stated. She explained she has no way of knowing how many people have used the Registry's lists to obtain rooms to rent. No Negro has yet reported success in using the list, she said...
True, this increase provides a positive measure for the improved quality of each entering class, but conceivably the Dean's List will soon come to be meaningless as an academic achievement. Dean's List students who are only in the top fifty per cent of their class will be no more able to enter the graduate schools of their choice than students in the same percentile at present. Larger honor lists, therefore, are misleading. Even more, they are strong proof of Harvard's failure to raise its own academic standards. The list itself does not mean that much; it could...