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...many exceed 50%. Wagner College on Staten Island in New York City hopes to get 1,500 applicants and must accept 1,100 of them to fill a class of 500 -a yield of 47%. Georgia Tech has the same yield, and Emory University in Atlanta has a 38% rate. There is no dearth of colleges with still lower yields. Notes Writer-Educator David Tilley in Hurdles: The Admissions Dilemma in American Higher Education, published last week (Atheneum; $13.95): "Many institutions labeled as selective...
Scavullo's description of the new naturalism fits several tall, smashing models?Rene Russo, Lisa Taylor and Patti Hansen, a freckle-faced 21-year-old from Staten Island, whom he photographed nude for a 24-page story coming in the April Vogue. It certainly fits Lauren Hutton, whose gap-toothed, T-shirt-and-nothing beauty in the late '60s made the earlier exoticism seem airless and unexciting. But Hutton is spending more time with her film career now?she has made eight movies?and there is no doubt that Cheryl Tiegs, who is taller, blonder and more gracefully lush than...
...last act in a long American drama is being played out. McPhee characterizes the struggle as "the Dallas scenario versus the Sierra Club syndrome"-developers versus conservationists, with many conflicting interests between them. McPhee is no reflexive ecologist; he compares the Trans-Alaska Pipeline to "a thread laid across Staten Island." Neither is he sanguine about the many ways man can find to make a vast space less wondrous. Discussing the psychic need for a frontier, he writes: "People are mentioning outer space as, in this respect, all we have left. All we have left is Alaska...
Like many other U.S. homeowners, Allan Coleman of Staten Island, N.Y., found that his heating bills climbed out of sight last winter. When President Carter in April proposed homeowner tax credits for installing insulation, Coleman figured he could at least afford to make his four-bedroom house more energy efficient. But when he went to the lumber store to buy 750 sq. ft. of fiber-glass insulation for his attic, he could not get one square inch. The store had been sold out for weeks, and no one had any idea when new shipments would arrive. Gripes Coleman...
...didn't dance. He said he hated people. He asked me to go out with him, and I finally said I would. At the end of the evening, I told him I didn't want to see him again. He was strange. Another time I was on Staten Island, going to a party. I saw him. I said, 'What are you doing here?' He said, 'I'm watching you.' It was very weird...