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...first things an official looks for in a candidate. If they're over 700, then the SATs are pretty important for a candidate; they're probably his primary asset, though as Reardon says, only about 10 per cent are admitted as a straight "scholar group." The median SAT scores for the last class was 674 verbal and 713 math. For scores below that, however, a candidate must have something else going for him--maybe he's a musician, or an athlete or has a "one" personality...
...Bureau of Census has just confirmed what many Americans already suspected: 1974 was not a very good year. While the median income of U.S. families rose to $12,840 in 1974-a 7% increase over the previous year-it was not enough to offset the 11% jump in prices, the bureau's new report says. Worse, another 1.3 million Americans slipped below the poverty level (e.g., $5,038 for a nonfarm family of four), though the poverty line itself was raised to reflect inflation. By the bureau's figures, the increase brought the total of officially defined poor...
...blue sedan is parked on the inside shoulder of the eastbound lane of the Ohio turnpike. The driver makes lusty love to a red-shirted girl lying on a blanket on the median strip. Lush-Ohio grass, bent about a subtle flex of asphalt, spinning through the onrush of high-revving machines, hollowed to catch the sky's seed, pulls through their pressing embrace. Coupled in time and stasis, the lovers arch to the Indianapolis sounds of the cars, rising and fading in perpetually lost motions...
Academy President Handler calls Boffey's charges "old hat." He insists that the academy has already done extensive housecleaning: examining potential study-committee members for conflicts of interest, recruiting younger and less conservative scientists for studies (median age of academy members in 1970 was 62), setting up a $100,000 fund to support worthy studies without outside financing. Adds Handler: "This is a remarkable institution that has served the country well." If it does better in the future, Boffey perhaps should claim some credit. In his final interview, Boffey remarked to Handler that he might be able...
Students in many Harvard science courses are often shocked to find that their grades are much lower than "large-scale grade inflation" would have indicated. Chemistry 20a's first semester median grade was a C+. In Natural Sciences 3, the lowest-level chemistry course at Harvard, students were promised "a substantial percentage of grades above B+," What many failed to anticipate was the equally substantial percentage of grades below...