Word: philadelphia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ting of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for their investigations of subatomic particles, and gave the chemistry prize to William Lipscomb of Harvard University for his work in explaining the structure of the chemicals called boranes. Together with the previous awards of the medicine prize to Baruch Blumberg of Philadelphia's Institute for Cancer Research and Carleton Gajdusek of the National Institutes of Health, and the economics prize to Economist Milton Friedman of the University of Chicago (TIME, Oct. 25), last week's winners gave the U.S. a clean sweep of the 1976 Nobel science awards...
...delightfully humorous and energetic play. Eva Le Gallienne, tritely but rightly called "one of the truly great ladies of the American theater," plays Fanny Cavendish, the aged grande dame of the family and of the stage, apparently modeled after Mrs. John Drew, the famous actress and manager of Philadelphia's Arch Street Theater at the end of the last century, and grandmother of Lionel, Ethel and John Barrymore. Eva Le Gallienne's performance is a masterpiece. She is the clear, ringing voice of Kaufman's satirical commentary on all things fashionable, vain or sentimental, and the vechicle for some...
Dupuis and Linsley looked at the Princeton match up as the biggest game of this, their last campaign. They remembered the string of one-sided losses, and Dupuis has actually played against, and lost to, many of the Princeton players since their high school days in Philadelphia. "We really wanted to beat them badly," she said yesterday...
...currently involved in testing teachers, foreign service officers, CIA candidates, gynecologists, hospital finance managers, podiatrists, furniture warehousemen, stock brokers, architects and Peace Corps volunteers, to mention just a few. Not long ago ETS developed a "racially unbiased" test for people applying to the Philadelphia police force. The ever-broadening sphere of ETS influence, and the importance of ETS test scores in determining who does what in this country, is mind-boggling...
...most common complaint concerns racial bias. Mean SAT scores for blacks, according to an August, 1975 article by Susan Schwartz McDonald in the Philadelphia Inquirer, average about 100 points lower than mean scores for whites. Brill claims that he found a study that showed a gap of 133 points between the median scores of black and white males on Law Boards. Some, including the folks at ETS, argue that the lower mean scores simply reflect inequalities in the educational system--differences in previous training. Executive Vice President Solomon insisted to Brill that the tests "have actually opened doors" to minorities...