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...application for admission to Harvard College is a 22-page packet of forms; applicants have to write a lengthy essay and send in a battery of transcripts, test scores and recommendations. The admissions office takes about one out of every ten applicants...
...decades one of the special delights of childhood has been to hack the tops off cereal cartons, stuff them into an envelope, pound on a stamp, and send away the lumpy packet. The boxtops, plus a coin or two, eventually elicit a "prize." The agony of the wait is exquisite, and the day some ticky-tack gadget arrives can be a private little Christmas...
Each month's packet of materials centers around a theme. "We play editorial roulette," says Brown. "We try to anticipate what's going to be hot." Sometimes it is uncanny how hot the subject can be. A pamphlet entitled "U.S. Prisons: Schools for Crime" was published in September 1971, just two weeks before the Attica revolt. Other timely topics have been impeachment and women's liberation, as well as lighter subjects like "body language" and the Beatles' lyrics. After describing a bloodless coup in Bolivia, one pamphlet suggested that students analyze the power structure of their...
...Harry Sears, one of the Vesco aides who delivered the secret donation to Stans? No, said Mitchell, he could not recall meeting Vesco before the spring of 1972. Mitchell brushed aside a letter to Sears written in June 1971 and signed "John" thanking Sears for sending Mitchell a packet of letters spelling out Vesco's SEC troubles. He received thousands of letters as Attorney General, said Mitchell, and many were routinely answered by Justice Department secretaries without his ever seeing them. He also denied agreeing on Jan. 12, 1972, to set up a meeting for Sears with William...
...invoke. Every one of the nation's 118 to 120 million licensed drivers over the age of 18 would be mailed a card entitling him or her to buy a month's supply of ration coupons, most likely at a bank or post office. Price: $1 per packet, to defray the $1.4 billion annual cost of the program. The basic ration would be a rather spartan 32 to 35 gallons a month, enough to permit only about 100 miles of driving a week in the average American...