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...regarding admission to the Harvard Medical School erroneously reported that "almost 6,000 applications will be field this year for the 140 places in the class of 1976." The fact is that the Office for Admission has received 6,000 requests for applications. There is no way to accurately predict how many of those will actually be submitted by November 1, the deadline for the filling of applications...
...along" is the major pastime: for it also fills much of the days that are shown. And getting along in the Britain of Sunday Bloody Sunday means to cope with institutions which press people into patterns, with crowds whose mass indifference breeds indifferent hate, with daily news bulletins which predict national disaster in stentorian tones of doom. (Seeing the film in the U.S. makes the voicing of Eden-like attitudes towards America seem an additional cruelty). If muted passions give the characters their interest, the way they react to dulling workday situations reveals their depths...
...remarks were published. He was later chided by White House Assistant Peter Flanigan, not for holding the view but because he let a newsman overhear him. This spring Sidney Jones, a professor from the University of Michigan on loan to the Council of Economic Advisers, refused to predict an economic surge based on a one-month rise in industrial production. He was then called in by White House Special Assistant Charles Colson, who demanded, "Why don't you get on the team?" Since then Jones has returned to his university post. Even Paul McCracken, the President's chief...
...idea whose time has come-at least for a full and candid hearing. Last week the Yale Law Journal devoted the bulk of its new issue to an article that not only offers convincing arguments for passage of the latest version of the amendment but also attempts to predict just what the measure would mean in practice...
What about this fall? The researchers, generalizing almost as much as the "myopic" educators and journalists they reprove, predict more trouble...