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Yale took a cautious tack in 1968, accepting only one woman for every seven men. "If you walked around the school those days it didn't look like a co-ed school at all," says Rachel Wizner, director of co-education. "It was more like a male school with women hanging around from weekend stays...
...motorists resent the "interlock" system on 1974 cars, which prevents the engine from starting until the driver and all front-seat passengers have buckled their seat belts. Impressed by the volume and vehemence of constituent mail on the subject, House members voted two weeks ago 339 to 49 to tack onto a Department of Transportation appropriations bill an amendment that would kill the requirement that cars be equipped with an interlock system (and also the annoying buzzer that sounds when a seat belt is unfastened; only a warning light on the dashboard would be required). So far as the debate...
...TIMES EDITORIAL on the day of Ford's inauguration takes a similar tack, minimizing his record (termed "far to the right of center") because, in the article's words, "whatever limitations that record may suggest...there is little question that Mr. Ford brings a dogged determination to the Oval Office. From the playing fields of Ann Arbor to the grinding hours he logged in Air Force Two serving the Republican party and defending its leader, Mr. Ford has displayed enduring grit." ("Let them eat grit," Marie Antoinette once said...
...Ranger Jerry Ford in 1936 to Son Jack in 1974 show that standards in the proper wearing of the National Park Service uniform seem to have dropped. In reality, they have not. Name tag and badge should be worn on the outside of a Park Service jacket. The tie tack should be located midway between the buttons of the breast pocket. In addition, moccasins are not considered proper footwear. It is no wonder that grizzlies in Yellowstone thought their eyes were deceiving them...
...childhood has been to hack the tops off cereal cartons, stuff them into an envelope, pound on a stamp, and send away the lumpy packet. The boxtops, plus a coin or two, eventually elicit a "prize." The agony of the wait is exquisite, and the day some ticky-tack gadget arrives can be a private little Christmas...