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...from California never doubles from one year to the next, and Exeter is never shut out completely. The number of Harvard sons admitted stays rather constant (although the number rejected is increasing rapidly), and the ratio of public school students to private school students changes at a slow and smooth rate, in the direction of the former...

Author: By Joel R. Kramer, | Title: Admissions: Personality Is Now the Key | 12/8/1967 | See Source »

...journalistic writing, however, has been spectular. In the Lady Bird chronicle, by co-editor Daniel Yergin and Mopsey Strange Kennedy, one sees both the smooth professional flow of events as the First Lady's entourage prepares for her visit and the rough frustration of Yale students bickering about how to show the university and the woman that they don't like what she stands...

Author: By Joel R. Kramer, | Title: Yale's New Journal | 12/2/1967 | See Source »

Some of the other more interesting pieces include: a pleasantly simple cauldron of the eighth century B.C. that combines utility and decoration in smooth, clean lines, a magnificent portrait head of Alexander the Great, a seventeenth century jade ewer inlaid with gold and set with rubies and emeralds, intricate and enormous carpets, miniaturist painting and goldware of the second millennium...

Author: By Barth Schwartz, | Title: Art Treasures of Turkey | 12/1/1967 | See Source »

...emphasis on the individual--his fear of the tendencies of society to make men smooth and round, rather than angular -- has evolved Heckscher's program for neighborhood parks. "Parks have always been the gathering placed for the people, the point where the values of the community are celebrated, where the business of the community is done, where everything from courtship to conspiracy has its birth...

Author: By Nicholas Gagarin, | Title: The Parks Fill Up With People As Heckscher, Hippies Add Life To New York's Vast Wilderness | 11/30/1967 | See Source »

Behind Jergesen in epee is sophomore Paul Viita. Although he is the fastest of the sophomores and has a smooth attack, Viita has been hampered by switching from foil. In epee, unlike foil, the arm is a target. Vita has trouble defending against attacks to the arm, Jergesen said...

Author: By George M. Flesh, | Title: Fencers Draw Weapons For Year's First Battle | 11/29/1967 | See Source »

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