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Hundreds of high school seniors sent their official acceptances to Byerly Hall this week as Harvard's Class of 1986 began to sign up. Beverly Richmond and Catharine Toulmin--from Brookline, Mass., and Washington, D.C. respectively--beat everyone to the punch, however, earning the distinction of being the first two to reply in the affirmative...
...Richmond, a math whiz, happily noted that she has "known since eighth grade" that she wanted to attend Harvard, but Toulmin--an avid bellringer--simply said that she liked Cambridge better than New Haven, which she described as a "pit," and Brown, which she felt was "too Californian...
Women and minority workers were the losers in the first case. At issue was a job-promotion plan at two American Tobacco Co. plants in Richmond. In effect, the scheme blocked blacks from many of the most desirable factory positions because whites had nearly always held the jobs that led to those spots. Black workers sued both the company and the union that negotiated the plan, charging that the plan's discriminatory impact violated the Civil Rights Act of 1964. But by a 5-to-4 margin, the Supreme Court ruled that even if a seniority system...
BORN. To Jaclyn Smith, 35, prettiest of Charlie's Angels, and Tony Richmond, 39, cinematographer: a son, their first child (her first, his fourth); in Los Angeles. Name: Gaston Anthony. Weight...
After graduating in 1937 from the University of Richmond--his home turf--Williams came to Harvard to pursue his doctoral work in entomology, and since then his relationship with Harvard has never wavered. He acquired his Ph.D. for his experimental study of the flight physiology of fruit flies in 1941. Leaning back in his chair and snickering, he remembers that the New Yorker cited his doctoral work "as one of the discoveries of the year that we could have done without...