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...first-year coaches are lucky enough to inherit a team capable of winning both league and Eastern crowns, setting new school records in every event, and going undefeated. But new Harvard swimming head coach Ray Essick is loath to make wild predictions, and despite a talented team that boasts 17 returning lettermen, five incoming high school All-Americans and two members of the Australian national team, he prefers to be "cautiously optimistic...
...Class of 1976, Radcliffe enrollment was to be increased from 315 a class, to about 450, and Harvard class size dropped from 1200 to about 1150. The Bok plan, in sum therefore, called for an increase of about 10 undergraduates a year. In fact, Harvard Admissions has been loath to trim a full 50 men from the Harvard class, and the entering class of 1977 will have 1175 men and 475 women, closely matching the 2.5:1 ratio...
...years. Now, to the dismay of financial authorities, the delinquency rate is soaring (as high as 9½% in the case of one major bank, compared with a standard adult rate of only 2%). The reasons most commonly cited: jobs are hard to find, and some students are simply loath to work or to pay debts. To track down delinquents, the Department of Health, Education and Welfare has assigned 58 new sleuths, but some culprits may be hard to find. When the Bank of America prodded one ex-student about laggardly payments, all it got in reply was a photo...
...Republicans reluctantly abandoned San Diego, Richard Nixon's "lucky city" and sentimental first choice. The logical alternative seemed to be Miami Beach, where the Democrats will caucus beginning July 10. An immediate problem was a Buick dealers' convention, slated for the August slot the Republicans were loath to change. Buick quickly agreed to move, and will likely end up in San Diego, where the prevailing joke round town is: Wouldn't you really rather have a Buick? Miami Beach officials were reluctant to offer the Republicans a bid, possibly because they thought they were simply being used...
...these difficulties make prosecutors loath to use informants as witnesses. Moreover, they are a generally unpredictable lot, and juries frequently discount their evidence on the theory that they may have embroidered their testimony to gain police favor. But the result-the fact that only a minority of informers ever appear in court-helps to reduce the amount of control that judges have over their use. Many who worry about informers and police power would like to see more, not less, of such judicial control. Aryeh Neier, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union, thinks that the use of police...