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Your penetrating article about society's touchiness [ESSAY, April 23] pinpoints how lobbyists attempt to substitute unrealistic, idealized images of their clients, whether they be the elderly, ethnics, gays or whatever. To the list you cited you might have added two more: the use of the word "special" to describe children with mental or emotional problems. What does that make the rest of the world's youth? Ordinary? The other is the reference to the physically handicapped as the "physically challenged." Are we to believe that the physically able never have to overcome obstacles in their lives...
...Yale University admissions office did not share this success. Margit A. Dahl, Yale director of admissions, said yesterday that more than 40 students will be pulled from the Yale waiting list...
...leading hitter in league games (.471), went five for eight yesterday with three doubles. Freshman catcher Jim DePalo (.368 overall) extended his hitting string to 12 games with his five-for-seven, five-RBI outing. Sophomore third baseman Bobby Kay (.326) socked three doubles and a triple. The list goes...
...major O.P.C. honor: the Olivier Rebbot Award for best photographic reporting from abroad for his pictures of the bombing of the Marine headquarters in Beirut last October and his coverage of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's election campaign last spring. Nachtwey and Jordan join a long list of TIME photographers who have won these distinguished Overseas Press Club awards and risked their lives to give TIME readers a level of news photojournalism no other publication can rival...
Last Week: Harvard list at Greater Boston Championships...