Word: placement
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...really knows why the number of students qualified for advanced standing declined this year. It might be just chance. To qualify for advanced standing, a student must get a certain score on at least three Advanced Placement Tests. But these tests, which are administered by the College Entrance Examination Board, are not given until May, a month after Harvard has sent out its acceptances. So Harvard, which has no way of knowing a student's Advanced Placement status, may just have accepted a class with a very small number of people who happened to do well on the AP tests...
Lindsay's third attack on the status quo focused on improving the level of city services in ghetto areas. The Mayor's creative, publicity-minded Parks Commissioner Thomas Hoving hired some teen-age leaders from Bedford Stuyvesant and Harlem to advise him on the design and placement of parks in their neighborhoods; he imported swimming pools into ghetto parks, and he provided free bus service for groups to any park in the city. Welfare Commissioner Nathan Ginsberg began a more difficult battle against his 18,000-man bureaucracy. He cut out the infamous "midnight raids" on welfare clients which were...
...worse than the admissions crush at the Ivies or Oxbridge, so it seems, is the placement struggle currently taking place in that self-styled educational paradise, the Soviet Union. Although Russia claims to spare no rubles when it comes to schooling, its universities and technical institutes are sadly inadequate to meet the national demand...
...nearly three hours, he and Santana slashed through a grueling 6-2, 4-6, 9-7, 3-6, 7-5 match that pressed Santana into some of the finest shotmaking seen at Wimbledon in years. The best, that is, until Santana took on Ralston in the finals. Playing impeccable placement tennis, alternating with spins, drops, and some beautifully surgical work at the net, Santana made virtually no mistakes. Ralston, who played brilliantly enough himself, did make mistakes, such as double-faulting nine times. One hour and 40 minutes later, Santana was Numero Uno-this time in straight sets...
...JOHN GARY SHOW (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). The musical-variety summer re placement shows are still pouring out of the network woodwork. Filling in for Dan ny Kaye, this one features - surprise -Danny as its first guest. Premiere...