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This is largely the result of the change in Harvard's admission policy. Until World War II, Harvard was essentially a rather non-competitive Eastern university dominated by preparatory school boys from established families. Nearly everyone who wished to enter passed muster; but not many outside those who naturally expected to come to Harvard asked to come in. For example, 90 per cent of the boys who applied for the class of 1937 were admitted. Twenty-four years later Harvard admitted only one quarter of those who applied for the class of 1961. The University had become a national institution...
...should be man enough to resign," said Philadelphia's Teamster Vice President John Backhus. "He's done too much damage to the union's reputation." Nevertheless, when the 15-man Teamster executive board meets in two weeks, chances are remote that insurgents will be able to muster the ten votes they need to expel Hoffa...
Bibliophile Alibi. Even as it swept away Section 6, the court intimated that Congress could write a new law which would pass constitutional muster. "The appellants in this case," said the court pointedly, "should not be required to assume the burden of demonstrating that Congress could have written a statute which might constitutionally have prohibited their travel...
...matter who happens to be the boss in South Viet Nam, Saigon's newspapers lead a precarious existence. Those that don't die of malnutrition, a common fate where even the biggest daily is hard put to it to muster 35,000 readers, run the risk of offending the government. The late President Diem controlled the press with a heavy hand. And, after a temporary lull, so did the junta government that overthrew him. Last week Major General Nguyen Khanh, who overthrew Diem's over-throwers last January, demonstrated that he was no different from...
...told, foreign sailors have traveled across the oceans to compete 18 times since 1851, when the schooner America started it all by trouncing a fleet of the fastest boats Britain could muster. Every challenger has returned home emptyhanded. In 1958 Britain's Sceptre went down to a humiliating four straight defeats by the U.S.'s Columbia; two years ago, Australia's Gretel lost 4-1 to Weatherly and its master tactician Bus Mosbacher. Now it is Britain's turn again, and the Royal Thames Yacht Club means to make a sterner test of it. Off Newport...