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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Down with Hypocrisy. The last bastions of separate men's and women's education are crumbling because they cen no longer find enough bright applicants willing to endure four years of monastic isolation. After Bennington announced that it was going coed, applications for this year's freshman class rose 56% over last year-despite the fact that the college's tuition had been hiked an average...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Students: Cracking the Cloisters | 9/26/1969 | See Source »

...vacation houses; by 1974 they plan to construct another 5,000. Naturally, land prices and property taxes have soared. In 1967, the owner of a 55-acre wood lot in Guilford paid $24 in annual taxes; today he pays $585. As a result, some residents can no longer afford to live in Windham County, and have put their farms up for sale. As more developers buy them, the lovely open countryside becomes, in Vermont's Governor Deane C. Davis' words, "a man-made jungle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Land: Cry, Vermont | 9/26/1969 | See Source »

Four-channel sound, soon to be available only on prerecorded tape (and only from Vanguard Records) has rich though agonizing implications for the record industry. For years, enthusiasts have predicted that tape would replace records, pointing out that it wears longer and is almost impossible to scratch. Its major flaw-tape hiss-has finally been alleviated with the improvement of tape materials. The cartridge and cassette business is booming. Some seers now predict that the wonders of quadrisonic sound will provide a final push for tape against disks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Recordings: Ahd Now, Quadrisonic | 9/26/1969 | See Source »

Since halfback Jerry Santini is no longer at Penn, and since the Quakers' two best ends are back, the litle quarterback, who is no relation to Alex Zbrezrj, is likely to throw even more this fall...

Author: By Bennett H. Beach, | Title: Soaking Up the Bennies | 9/24/1969 | See Source »

...contribute significantly to the ground attack. Also a possible replacement for the graduated Bill Robertson is Rick Furbish, a former end. Clearly, there is not another Brian Dowling at Yale. Probably there is not another Brian Dowling anywhere, whatever that means. His primary backup man. Bob Bayless, is no longer at Yale for academic reasons. At the moment, the two top candidates are Joe Massey and Chuck Sizemore. Massey earned experience on the junior varsity last year. Sizemore, a sophomore, passes well, but is not known as a strong runner...

Author: By Bennett H. Beach, | Title: Soaking Up the Bennies | 9/24/1969 | See Source »

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