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Despite the drop in applicants from 400 in 1985 to 300 this year, Dartmouth will not enroll fewer Black students, officials say. The admissions office will institute a "more energetic follow-up procedure" to woo prospective Black students, Dean of Admissions Alfred Quirk told The Dartmouth...
When the soldiers left Cairo International Airport Wednesday evening, a quirk of fate saved Private First Class Eric Harrington of Lake City, Fla. The unhappy soldier could not find his passport, and he was sent back to Sharm el Sheikh to await this week's rotation home. His buddies departed on a 1,900- mile flight to Cologne, West Germany, where the DC-8 landed for a 90-minute refueling stop. Security there was described as tight. After a 2,700-mile Atlantic crossing, the plane touched down at Gander to refuel again for the final, 1,700-mile...
...credit for bravery. A Maggot, his seventh work of fiction, is an unusual and consciously risky book. The title alone may discourage the curious (and give booksellers the willies). In a brief prologue, Fowles explains that he is using the word maggot in the obsolete sense of whim or quirk, but that won't help matters much. And what will readers make of such Fowlesian whims as building his plot around questions to which he never provides the answers? Or resting his conclusion on an assumed familiarity with the Shakers, that little-known sect of puritanical Protestants who arose...
...seems worth it. The depot's main building, finished in 1894, is a massive, lovable quirk. The local architect, Theodore Link, was obviously under the influence of Henry Hobson Richardson: rough limestone blocks, big arched doors, Romanesque bulk. But inside and out, he and Louis Millet, the interior decorator, wildly mixed and matched styles. The west wing has its odd Gothic outcroppings, the Grand Hall some rather Moorish nooks and ornament; an intimate dining room seems Viennese; and, of course, the steel-truss roof built to cover trains and tracks is pure 19th century Industrial...
...clearly called for it. This precipitated an extra-inning loss to Texas and so unnerved the Angels that they dropped the first three games of the climactic four-game series in Kansas City. Meanwhile, players of lesser means and greater resilience, the Minnesota Twins, were undone by a quirk. Former Royal Jamie Quirk, who began the season as a bullpen coach in St. Louis, was vacationing in the Ozarks the week before last when Cleveland called for an emergency catcher. On the way there, he paused in Kansas City to roast retired Pitcher Paul Splittorff and informed Third Baseman George...