Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...FAIR SISTER by Wi//iam Goyen. 104 pages. Doub/eday...
...first paragraph sets the tone for the book, a tone maintained throughout like a good old-fashioned narrative poem: "All the rest of us in our family are dark, but Savata my sister is fair. Now Jesus, did you know, himself was a dark man. They say his hair was like lamb's wool and his feet like polished brass. Thank you Jesus...
Several other colleges, including Radcliffe and other "seven sister" schools, have indicated interest in the standard report and may adopt it if it proves successful. The Educational Testing Service has announced that they are presently preparing a form similar to the one the 13 colleges will be using. They expect to complete the form so it can be used next year...
Radcliffe is one of the last of the "seven sister" colleges to raise its tuition rates. Vassar, Barnard, Smith, Bryn Mawr, and Mt. Holyoke began the trend this year by increasing charges $250 to $300 each. Like Radcliffe, Wellesley will wait until 1964-'65 for a $300 rise. Radcliffe will remain the most expensive of the seven schools by over...
...Turkey will be by far the Market's poorest sister. Two-thirds of its 30 million people are illiterate, more than 10% of its work force is unemployed, and per capita income averages $200. Foreign trade, which swings around agriculture, is in chronic deficit. This year Turkey will export $370 million-mostly in aromatic tobacco, cotton, hazelnuts, sultana raisins and Smyrna figs-but its imports will amount to $640 million, largely in machinery. With its population growing by 1,000,000 a year, while its capital markets remain skeleton-thin because of a lack of personal savings, Turkey sorely...