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...Crimson editorial, pontificating from Mount Olympus, on "the paucity of first rate black social scientists" exemplifies a neo-racist attitude whose effects are no less debilitating than the institutional racism Harvard's hiring policy functions to perpetuate. The paternalistic, misinformed, patronizing tenor of the article distorts and undermines the essential validity of the criticism. Lani Gulnier '71 Connie Hilliard...
Yale's Payne Whitney Gym, long the Mt. Olympus of Eastern League swimming, today witnesses the last appearance of one of its immortals. Don Schollander, the 1964 Olympic Gold Medalist, is bowing out as captain of the awesome Eli team...
...that Galbraith, with most people anyway, enjoys being thought arrogant, just as some people find odd pleasure in being thought ruthless or mean. Galbraith, says Buckley, "always gives the impression that he is on very temporary leave from Olympus, where he holds classes on the maintenance of divine standards...
...Federal Aviation Administration must pass on the plane-and should it find the Concorde not air worthy, the French would surely complain that the FAA was dragging its feet to let the Boeing model catch up. The FAA is particularly wary of the fuel and noise problems. Four powerful Olympus engines consume great quantities of jet fuel, requiring reserves that will add weight and cut down on income. Just how much fuel will be need ed-and can be carried-remains the question...
...last twelve hours, his breathing reflexes numbed by the spreading hemorrhage, he slowly, painfully choked to death. It was, writes Svetlana, a "ghastly death. I felt like a good-for-nothing daughter who had in no way helped this old sick man who was rejected and alone on his Olympus...