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...Princeton student has filed a complaint with the New Jersey Division on Civil Rights charging that Princeton maintains a 14 per cent quota for the admission of Jewish applicants...
Arthur B. Cooper, a sophomore, said Sunday that "without the quota there would be between 40 and 50 per cent Jewish students here...
...took up the cause of almost any businessman who was unhappy with Washington. As an influential Cabinet member, Stans argued strongly against federal adoption of a no-fault auto-insurance plan, against the ban on DDT and against a presidential commission's advice to junk the oil-import quota system. He also led the battle to impose trade quotas on foreign-made textiles. His job as keeper of the party war chest will undoubtedly include reminding many favored industrial leaders of their debt...
Brian Taylor and Ted Manakas were the men that posed the threat Friday night at Princeton, where a Harvard team had not won since 1958. Taylor, coach Bob Harrison had figured, was going to get his usual quota of 25 to 30 points no matter what you did to him. What he wanted his men to do was to shut off Manakas, forward Al Dufty and Center Andy Rimol by playing a sagging man-to-man defense and using their superior height to control the boards...
...Cornell, where the Ithacans are incapable of playing a sport on anything that doesn't grow grass or freeze, losing has become a habit. After five blacks boycotted the squad last month to protest an alleged coaches' quota on the number of blacks in the starting lineup, any chance Cornell had of doing anything vanished...