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Among the top five individual contestants were William C. Waterhouse and John Wood from Harvard. According to the competition's rules, the American Mathematical Association will select one of these five to receive a $3,000 grant for study at the University's Graduate School of Mathematics...
...McFarland, director of personnel services at GM, explained that under the latter plan, winners of national scholarships tended to concentrate in a small number of select colleges, like Harvard in an effort to include more colleges in the program, GM imposed in 1960 a quota on the number of national winners that any one institution could have...
...that the real God was hidden to men's eyes; earth, the realm of evil, had been created by a lesser, malevolent deity. Jesus had been sent by the hidden God to redeem the world from this demiurge, and had imparted a secret wisdom, or gnosis, to the select few who were destined to be saved...
Just what type of targets an enemy will select is a highly speculative subject. Presently it is estimated that the Soviet Union has 75 or more missiles, a force insufficient for a "pre-emptive" first strike. This means that the U.S.S.R. lacks the power to destroy U. S. retaliatory forces, even if the Soviets concentrate solely on these targets. Therefore the only way in which the Russians can hope to threaten America is to aim their missiles at the population centers of the U. S. and Western Europe. The 25 major metropolitan areas in the United States contain 60.8 million...
Bender was concerned about the consequences, for the College and the individual, of an admissions policy which would select students solely on the basis of apparant academic promise...