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...percentage of black students enrolled in the first-year class had declined from less than 5 per cent in 1970 to less than 2 per cent in 1973. However, the article failed to note that, while one-fifth of all applicants to GSAS were admitted in 1973, only one-twelfth of the black applicants were admitted. The discrepancy in admissions ratios was similar...
Though the article was discursive and heavy with detail, many editors happily rushed the story to press. After all, it was a dramatic tale whipped out on deadline. The Philadelphia Inquirer, however, wired Murphy its reservations: "Request urgent rewrite of first-person kidnap account. Suggest lead is in twelfth graf. Suggest perhaps you are too close to story. Suggest step back, take another look. Can you comply?" Constitution Associate Editor Hal Gulliver, who received the message in Murphy's absence, did not know whether to laugh or cry. So he replied: "In the unhappy event that one of your...
Harvard, winning its twelfth national squash championship in the last 13 years, came close to winning the crown outright. Princeton's second and eighth men, Dave Bottger and Jeff Oakes, had to struggle before eking out 3-2 wins...
...first congressional race of this mid-term election year, last week's special vote to fill a House vacancy in Pennsylvania's Twelfth District, was widely viewed as an early gauge of Watergate's wallop at the polls. The results turned out to be almost as muddy as the Conemaugh River waters that submerged Johnstown, the district's largest city, in the historic flood of 1889. Barring a reversal in a vote review, the Democrats captured a seat that had been held by the late John P. Saylor, a Republican, for 24 years-hardly an encouraging...
...high scorer with 25 points), hit two jumpers to bring the Irish to within one point with 1 min. 10 sec. left on the clock. Notre Dame Guard Dwight Clay finally ended the suspense. From the right corner, with 28 sec. left, he hit for Notre Dame's twelfth straight-and winning-point. With six sec. left, and the score 71-70, U.C.L.A. had three more chances to save the game. But Walton was wide with a short jumper and neither Forward Pete Trgovich nor Meyers could bat the ball in. The Bruins will have a chance for revenge...