Word: thompson
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Rosenblum suggested that writing a thesis does not necessarily help you get into graduate school. Admissions officers at the Law School and Business School said last week they agree. N. June Thompson, assistant director of admissions at the Law School, says she has "no feeling either way" about whether an applicant should be writing a senior thesis--particularly because acceptance notices are sent out well before the theses are written...
...Rightists are also attempting to link up with blue-collar and ethnic groups they used to shun. Typical is Mike Thompson, the publicist for Anita Bryant's successful campaign against the homosexual antidiscrimination ordinance in Dade County. On the basis of overlapping economic and life-style issues, he is putting together what he hopes will be a "new majority" of Republicans, blue-collar Democrats and Jewish voters. "We will bring together people who have never been politically involved before," he says, "and they will go on to work together for other issues and candidates...
DIED. Marion K. Sanders, 72, journalist, novelist (The Bride Laughed Once) and biographer of Journalist Dorothy Thompson; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. While working for the State Department, Sanders helped develop its publications program and served as editor in chief of the Russian language magazine Amerika. She later worked as an editor at Harper's and Atlas World Press Review...
Writer Robert E. Thompson has studded his script with references to most of the conventional Kennedy assassination theories. While he eventually arrives at a verdict on Oswald's guilt (which ABC is keeping secret until air time), so confusing and arbitrary are his data that the verdict might as well be drawn out of a hat. All this Trial really proves is just how effectively television can trivialize even one of the most surefire historical dramas of our time.-Frank Rich
...Boston had jumped to a 3-0 lead early in the game on Carlton Fisk's second inning solo blast and a two-run, fourth inning rally helped out by some shoddy fielding. Motown's Jason Thompson responded in the bottom of the fourth with a one-run homer, his 30th of the year...