Word: makeups
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Jewett said the trend toward fewer middle-income applicants has not considerably altered the makeup of next year's freshman class as compared to other classes, but was the cause of some concern within the administration. He said that the trend could lead to a significant change in class composition in the next decade if the trend is not checked...
...trials themselves have a different complexion, with juries approximating the city's racial makeup. And juries virtually never vote to convict if there is any suspicion of police brutality. This, perhaps more than any other change, has brought court reformers into head-on collision with the police. A columnist wrote in the Detroit Police Officers' Association newspaper: "If a person accused of a crime appears before Judge James Del Rio and says he was beaten by the police, Del Rio calls the policeman a liar, and dismisses the case." Gary Lee, the association's president, declares...
...South Carolina, a streaker entered the campus library and asked to check out The Naked Ape. Responding to a Knoxville tavern owner's offer of a free supply of beer to the first coed who would pick it up in the nude, a shapely lass wearing only her makeup darted into the bar and with an armload of beer rushed out again to a waiting car. Two students staged a relay across a bridge in Portland, Me. At Princeton University, Charles Bell, a candidate for vice president of the class of'76, demonstrated his political flexibility by taking...
...task required computer-like knowledge of each constituency's class, caste and religious makeup. In one area dominated by harijans, the untouchables, a member of the passi, or swineherd caste, was selected; in Brahman constituencies, Brahmans were chosen; in Moslem areas, which hold 16% of the state's population, Moslems. The Congress Party's tactics paid off: it won a clear majority of seats. In the face of the party's apparent inability to solve the state's numerous problems, it was an impressive personal triumph for Mrs. Gandhi...
While Nixon looked trim and vigorous, considering his long year of personal ordeal, the pancake makeup did not conceal recently acquired facial lines. He perspired more freely than ever. In a classic slip of the tongue, he read a line about the need to replace "the discredited present welfare program" as the need to replace the "dis credited President," then corrected himself...