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...Each state chooses around 15 applicants for interviews, perhaps the most important part of the process--it is the emphasis on personal contact that makes the Rhodes application unique. Only two of the fifteen will go on to the regional interviews-- each state belongs in a region that will select four finalists, a way, Rice says, of avoiding bias toward any particular area...
Michael S. Rice, '63, secretary for the Massachussets Rhodes selection committee, says he feels the women who are chosen "will in effect select themselves--the selection committees are wholly dependent on who chooses to apply." Rice says he will look for women with "a good head, an active life in some important respect, a social role of some importance in some area, some evidence of achievement in other areas besides academics," and for women who are "honorable, compassionate, and principled...
...shortly after Rhodes's death, the first executor of his will told a convention of American university and college presidents that "provided they would select from each state the candidate most likely to become President of the United States, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court or ambassador to Great Britain, then Oxford and the Rhodes Trustees would probably be satisfied." There are some Rhodes scholars who never use their gifts, Rice says, but he adds that "if there's any quality that's common to Rhodes who haven't done much, it's that they see all the sides...
...fund borrower; Jack Sheetz, a businessman indicted but not prosecuted for misuse of union pension funds; and some other figures linked to organized crime. After finishing the day with a respectable 92 on the 72 par course, Nixon retired to a recreation room for a private chat with a select group of fellow players and autographed scraps of paper for guests' children...
...tangled is Washington's subterranean world of spying, intelligence gathering and undercover investigation that any abuse found in one agency seems destined to expose related illegalities in others. After pursuing the CIA for more than nine months, Democratic Senator Frank Church's Select Committee on Intelligence Activities last week shifted to the Internal Revenue Service and its harassment of citizens for political purposes. En route, the committee took potshots at the FBI as well...