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Most student groups were not upset at the commission of the second packet, although some organizers said they should have been given greater notice of Epps's decision...
Only two groups--the Harvard-Radcliffe "Wood Drive and Hillel House--had contacted him about the second information packet. Epps said, and by avoiding the use of 6000 additional envelopes Harvard saved about...
...Yeats, works for the CIA and pilots a U2. But he is not a routine spy in the sky. Because a mole in the National Security Council has been passing policy secrets to the Soviets, Oakes is asked to fake a forced landing in the U.S.S.R. and allow a packet of forged documents to fall into enemy hands. The aim of this counterespionage is to neutralize a Soviet agent and drive a wedge into Chinese-Soviet relations. Can Blackie pull off this caper and get home in time for such bourgeois sentimentality as marrying his sweetheart and celebrating Christmas...
...Futurist, a bimonthly published by the World Future Society, and the Hastings Center Report, which examines issues concerning ethics and the natural sciences. A week before TEAM met in Menlo Park, summaries of 88 articles were distributed to the group's members. Subjects in last week's packet of clippings ranged from an Asia 2000 report on the impact of nuclear power plant radiation on the spiderwort plant, to a British magazine story that Lufthansa Airlines is now using trains instead of planes on some routes in West Germany...
...actually tests. Again, Slack and Porter say that ETS implies that it is measuring innate and unchanging abilities, even if its more recent literature places a heavy emphasis on skills developed during schooling. Mary Churchill, an ETS spokesman, responds that almost every aspect of the voluminous information packet received by students emphasizes that the SAT is not an intelligence test, but rather a measure of "learned academic skills...