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Horner, 33, is the youngest president in Radcliffe's history. As a result of the 1971 "non-merger merger" contract with Harvard, she is also the first to be Dean of Radcliffe at Harvard as well as president of Radcliffe...
...several years now, the Presbyterian Church in the U.S. (Southern Presbyterians) has been rumbling with rumors and threats of schism. The mildly liberal majority of the 960,000-member denomination favor a merger with the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. (Northern Presbyterians), which would heal a breach reaching back to the Civil War. Conservatives among the Southern Presbyterians are not only opposed to the merger but also to the liberals' emphasis on social action at the expense of evangelism and to a proposed new confession of faith that they consider doctrinally vague. Up to now, the right-wing...
...assignment of Harvard coaches to Radcliffe varsity teams was initiated this fall as part of the five-year merger plan for Radcliffe and Harvard...
...merger of the two athletic programs will eventually be extended to all sports, Paget said. The basketball team will also get a Harvard coach this winter she added...
Even more significant are the changes that Namath is signally responsible for working on the structure of pro football. It was the purse-draining price war for top draft choices like Namath that led to the merger of the A.F.L. and N.F.L. in 1966. It was also Namath who bluntly announced to a disbelieving sports world that the Jets would beat the heavily favored Baltimore Colts in the 1969 Super Bowl, then led his team to a stunning 16-7 upset that gave the A.F.L. parity with the N.F.L...