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Twelve or more hours a day, seven days a week in March and early April, advocates argue and re-argue their cases, votes are called, applicants are disposed of. As an advocate argues, the Dean pencils notes into his seveninch thick looseleaf filled with computer forms. In the notebook used by former admissions dean Fred L. Glimp last year, there are notes like "Yale son" in a circle, or "soccer" followed by two exclamation points. Next to each name is a red "A" for accept or a blue "R" for reject--or a red "A" crossed out and replaced...

Author: By Joel R. Kramer, | Title: Admissions: Personality Is Now the Key | 12/8/1967 | See Source »

...public but has also urged other Republican leaders-including some who personally prefer Rockefeller-to join Romney's cause. He has turned over to the infant Romney organization the names of thousands of political contacts and onetime Rockefeller campaign workers. Romney researchers were given access to some 30 looseleaf volumes of his research material on is sues. A number of former Rockefeller aides have already signed with the Romney organization, and some of the New Yorker's present staffers have been serving him as occasional consultants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Republicans: Let George Do It | 5/19/1967 | See Source »

...unions and the trustees. Whenever a musician makes a mistake, he is painfully aware that there are replacements waiting ten-deep in the wings. Each week Stokowski auditions 20 aspirants in his penthouse on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue, carefully grades them, and enters their names in a black looseleaf notebook that bulges with his ratings of 1,700 musicians and singers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Conductors: Stoky's Striplings | 6/3/1966 | See Source »

Between sessions with visiting states men, Lyndon Johnson spent hours last week frowning over a thick green looseleaf notebook. Its neat rows of figures, summarizing every Government department's current and requested spending, persuaded the President that some hefty cutting remains to be done before his budget is completed around Jan. 1. Then, and not until then, will he decide whether or not to run the political risk of a tax increase in a congressional election year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Administration: Catching the Rabbit | 12/24/1965 | See Source »

...begun preparing for his address as long ago as last July, when, with full confidence of victory over Barry Goldwater, he had instructed his advisers to provide him with ideas. They had come through with a vengeance. At the ranch last week Johnson showed reporters three thick, black looseleaf notebooks crammed, he said, with "thousands of pages from some 50 agencies." But he was also drawing on a document of his own, an article he wrote in 1958 for the Texas Quarterly, which has become his and his advisers' favorite statement of the Lyndon Johnson political philosophy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: The Union & the World | 1/8/1965 | See Source »

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