Word: poole
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Robert Kennedy assassination, the Tate-LaBianca murders, the mass of buried farm workers, the Asian-American eye surgeon and his family slaughtered around their pool, Patty Hearst and her "army," the Zebra killings, and now an attempt to assassinate the President. Perhaps Californians should examine themselves to determine how it could all happen in their state in just seven years...
...Yale graduate school will simply be a "small addition to the enormous pool of schools offering similar programs," Bok said...
JUNKYARD ALLEY has a crew of regulars who match any pool hall or bar gang for devotion. Curb space along the side streets is often at a premium because these diehards use the curbs to elevate one side of the car so they can get underneath to do their work on the spot. And it's not easy to break into the select group who know the owners and always manage to get wind of the best deals and the latest tips on the wrecked 'Vette coming in tomorrow...
This year, the graduate school has come up with a new plan to increase the pitifully small minority applicant pool, hoping to be able to choose from a larger number of qualified minority applicants. The GSAS plan, if implemented, would enable a prospective graduate student to submit an application to one school and have it reviewed automatically by other schools; this plan would include Harvard, Yale, Princeton and possibly other schools. The major benefit of this "consortium" is that it probably cannot fail to increase the individual departments' awareness of qualified students. The potential drawbacks are that department chairmen...
...GSAS has already undertaken a less ambitious program, whereby the primary GSAS feeder schools will submit to participating graduate schools the names of all highly qualified college seniors as potential applicants. One GSAS administrator has already said she objects to making this program nation-wide, because the GSAS applicant pool is and should remain highly selective. Statements such as this one defeat the purpose of a recruiting plan, for students at the highly selective feeder schools are certainly not the ones who need to be pulled into the applicant pool. It is the students at state schools and less prestigious...