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Jewett and Arthurs also cited the median verbal SAT score of entering black students at Harvard this year--605--as proof that black students here are "extraordinarily talented." However, Kilson replied that the SAT median for whites is "eighty to 100-plus points higher...

Author: By Nicholas Lemann, | Title: Admissions Deans Deny Kilson Claims | 9/29/1973 | See Source »

...unprecedented 13 million, or 52%. Youth was bound to make more of a stir on the basis of numbers alone. In the 1970s, however, this age group will increase by only some 4.3 million, while in the 1980s it will decline. The U.S. Census Bureau estimates that the median age of Americans may rise from 28.0 in 1970 to as high as 35.8 in the year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: The Graying of America | 9/17/1973 | See Source »

...average. But black men continue to make substantially less than whites. Black male college graduates over 35 earn about $9,300, or about $300 less than white high school graduates of the same age. Younger black college graduates do slightly better than white high-schoolers, but their median income of $8,700 is well below the $9,200 median for white college dropouts. These differentials have lessened only slightly over the past five years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INCOMES: The March to Equality Marks Time | 9/3/1973 | See Source »

...last three years A.C. has proved to be a solvent venture. A new associate general secretary for Continuing Education has been hired. A.C.'s clientele, however, has been primarily an elderly one. The median age of A.C. members falls in the late forties-fifties range where it is about ten years younger at other universities with A.C. programs, as Dartmough, Cornell, Yale. One explanation is the environmental one: Hanover and Ithica offer a country-and-campus package attractive to those who wish to excape an urban environment. Another reason high cost. Younger alumni cannot affort a stiff...

Author: By Max Rudmann, | Title: From Nostalgia to Diploma: The Alumni College | 7/24/1973 | See Source »

...Momo") Giancana, then boss of the Chicago Mafia. Memo's girl friend was Phyllis McGuire of the singing sisters, and he wanted to chase off a rival, a well-known comedian. Sam's strategy was to convince Phyllis that the rival was a philanderer. The co median returned to his Las Vegas hotel suite one night to discover two private detectives digging through his belongings. At his call, sheriff's deputies arrested the pair, and they languished in jail for days before disclosing that they were working for a Miami detective agency. Three years later, some embarrassed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CIA: Operating at Home | 5/28/1973 | See Source »

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