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Harvard admissions for the Class of 1980 were the most selective in the country, according to an informal survey conducted this week by students at Amherst College...
Overcrowding in several Harvard Houses is reducing the number of "senior singles"--individual suites that contain both a living room and bedroom--offered to seniors each year, according to a survey of house secretaries yesterday...
That notion comes out of a survey of 3,500 college teachers by two political scientists, Stanford's Seymour Martin Lipset and the University of Connecticut's Everett C. Ladd Jr. After asking a series of questions about issues and candidates, they conclude that the more conservative faculty members choose U.S. cars (with General Motors autos favored by the most conservative of the conservative). Liberals have a greater tendency to buy foreign models...
Almost three-fifths of the foreign-car owners in the survey favored détente, but only one-third of the U.S.-auto owners did. Virtually all the Saab drivers-98%-voted for George McGovern in 1972; so did 82% of the Mercedes drivers, 80% of those with Volvos, 76% of the Porsche owners, 74% of the Volkswagen owners. By contrast, 49% of the professors with G.M. cars voted for Richard Nixon; he had been less favored by owners of Fords (40%) and Chrysler products...
...followers next. It is no wonder he expects more than a million paid through his gates this year. Milwaukee Brewer Boss Bud Selig, 41, comes right out and calls baseball show biz. His competition? Not other sports, but "movies, the circus, rock concerts." His market? Youth. A 1975 survey showed that the average age of Brewer fans is 25; the young have discovered that the game is cheap at the gate and fine for a date ($8 is tops, in Houston; 85? is bottom, in Baltimore...