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...moved toward providing equal opportunity to all young people. Within a few years, primary other things, the government increased the number of universities from 22 to 65. While many talented but underprivileged students were able to attend a university for the first time, thousands of underprepared students were also swept through the halls of academe. French universities expanded rapidly: from 385,000 students in 1966 to 745,000 in 1974 to nearly 1 million today. In the late 1970s, as France's baby-boom generation was attending universities, more than 40% of the country's 1 million unemployed...
...year history of Harvard intercollegiate athletics. The highlight of all came when the men's hockey team through the playoffs to the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) fire (Upper left corner) Defenseman MIT BOLSON leaps into the air after scoring open-net goal against Yale. Hockey-may swept the campus, uniting the student be like nothing else in recent years. Fans tossed tennis balls, coins and a live chicken the ice during the Cornell game (lower ), and at the game's end one students the Cornell goalie with a beer can. CODE (25) and DAVE CONNORS do Providence's RICH...
When students sat in at Lamont Library two years ago to demand all-night library facilities during reading period, their presumably paraprofessional goals cast a mocking light on their militance. And when, several weeks ago, 500 students at the Law School swept through the campus occupying buildings to protest a proposal for counting class participation towards grades--essentially an anti-cramming nor does it mean that tentative, revolutionary have outlived their usefulness. Rather, students' willingness to try such tactics even on apparently incongruous issues reflects their strong--and perceptive--instinct that they and the University can rarely negotiate...
Elliott fell in love with politics along with the rest of his town when popular local physician Otis "Doc" Bowen ran for governor in 1972. Bowen swept into office with the Nixon landslide that year, and sixth grader Elliott was captivated by the furor: "The whole community was just thrust into a political frenzy for months. It was exceedingly exciting, not just politically, but in a very personal way... We attended umpteen political rallies and speeches, with the TV cameras and lights and everything... Somewhere in the campaign, I became involved in the whole process, became an avid Republican...
When Good Ole Boy Ray Blanton swept "into the Governor's office in the 1974 election, Marie's appearance and efficiency caught the attention of Blanton's legal counsel, Eddie Sisk. She was soon appointed chairman of the Tennessee paroles and pardons board. From the beginning, writes Maas, Sisk "figured he'd swatted a lot of flies at once. Marie was a good-looking woman . . . her Vanderbilt degree was class. And she was a little naive...