Word: middletowners
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Wesleyan University in Middletown, Conn., was one of the first to react to the bad news. A private university known for its remarkably openhanded scholarship program and diverse student body, Wesleyan announced last week that it could no longer continue "aid-blind" admissions, accepting any qualified student regardless of ability to pay. Last year Wesleyan spent $2.7 million of its own funds on scholarships; with the proposed federal budget cuts that figure would nearly double. As a result, this spring some low-income applicants, who in better times would have received letters of acceptance, may be rejected in favor...
DIED. Helen Merrell Lynd, 85, pioneering scholar and co-author of two sociological classics, Middletown: A Study in Contemporary American Culture (1929) and Middletown in Transition (1937); in Warren, Ohio. Lynd and her late husband Robert melded anthropological and psychological insights to research the daily lives of the residents of Muncie, Ind., the first such major study of a U.S. community...
Other industrialized nations were quick to take advantage of Carter's ban on American high-technology exports two years ago. A French company, for example, landed a contract to build a Soviet steel plant that was originally scheduled to be constructed in part by Armco Inc. of Middletown, Ohio. James H. Giffen, president of Armco's international subsidiary, thinks that Europe will be equally unsupportive of Reagan's sanctions. Says he: "We applaud President Reagan for his sympathy with the Polish people. But we have to wonder whether sanctions are an effective way of communicating concern...
...will turn out all right in the end. The relentless good cheer comes through mostly in the writing. Snappy puns and appealing alliteration make everything seem a little less gloomy. To wit: "Some people, however, are wearing their nuclear designer genes with a smile...(or)...the problem has the Middletown populace as irritated as they are irradiated...
...MIDDLETOWN, Pa--A 14-member crew explored the Three Mile Island nuclear reactor containment building today after plant officials said that unexpectedly high radiation levels had been found in the wall joints of a connecting building... Today marked the fifth time since the 1979 accident that the highly radioactive containment building had been entered... The teams took photographs, videotape recordings and radiation readings and edged closer than ever to the vessel containing the crippled reactor...