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...seldom recognized by today's black students that the small number of blacks at top-rank white schools before the 1960s was extremely skillful at exploiting the unique success-patterns at these institutions...

Author: By Martin L. Kilson jr., | Title: Black and White in the Ivy: The Ethnic cul-de-sac | 10/17/1978 | See Source »

Some first-rate private colleges seem bargain-priced: Beloit is $4,595 and Grinnell $4,620. Top-rank public universities cost even less; the University of California at Berkeley is $2,174 for state residents, and the University of Michigan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: College Costs | 9/8/1975 | See Source »

...Kurtz moved their base of operations to Europe, where despite Aristotle's warning ("The flute is not an instrument which has a good moral effect; it is too exciting"), the flute has remained in high standing. There she established herself among the concert world's handful of top-rank women instrumentalists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Queen of the Flute | 1/1/1973 | See Source »

...whole shebang very nearly came apart last September when an abortive barracks coup by his own Defense Minister and heir apparent, Lin Piao, forced Mao to ground the entire Chinese air force for weeks, and subsequently to cashier several Politburo members and carry out a sweeping purge of top-rank military...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Reconstruction Begins | 8/14/1972 | See Source »

...Relevance. The networks' replacement shows, at least on paper, do not presage any major format breakthroughs for next season. The straitened conditions in the movie business have made a few top-rank stars available to TV for the first time and have forced a few old favorites to return. James Stewart will make his series debut as a college professor in an NBC situation comedy. ABC has landed Shirley MacLaine for a sitcom in which she is a roving photojournalist, Tony Curtis as a jet-set adventurer in an action series and Anthony Quinn as a Mexican-American mayor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The Losers Are ... | 3/29/1971 | See Source »

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