Word: ranke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ajootian's performance in the hammer must rank with Baker's as Harvard's best of the meet. The former National High School shot put champion from Rhode Island threw 193 feet, his top throw--by six feet--this year...
While published polls get all the attention (giving the pollsters entree to far more lucrative market research), private pollsters work for candidates much as augurs labored for Caesar. No longer sure of his personal instincts, the modern politician has upgraded the pollster from the rank of technician to that of campaign tactician. Says a leading pollster, Joseph A. Napolitan: "Polls never won an election, but you can win an election with what you do with your polls...
...Riders up!" The bugle sounds First Call. All eastward streams the rank processional...
Died. Daniel L. Marsh, 88, president of Boston University from 1926 to 1951, chancellor since 1951, and architect of B.U.'s development into a first-rank center of learning; in St. Petersburg, Fla. Crusty, often controversial in matters not relating to education, Marsh was a fervent advocate of Prohibition, believed that because of TV "we are destined to have a nation of morons." There was no argument about the near miracle he worked at B.U., where he took a moldering collection of brownstones for 9,600 students in 1926 and built a multiversity that today boasts 23,000 students...
About 15 African courses will be available next fall. The normal rules covering cross-registration will not apply so students will not need the approval of their department unless they want to count the course for concentration. Students in any rank group list, not just I, II, and III, will be able to enroll at courses at other colleges...