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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Although it expected a definite increase in applicants, the Admissions Office was uncertain throughout the fall at what point the onslaught would stop. The first accomodation to this year's increase--one staff member called it a "way to buy time for ourselves"--was a cutback in the old A-B-C rating system, which gave early notification of standing to seniors in over 100 schools with par-4FRED L. GLIMP Machines Are Not the Solution...

Author: By Sanford J. Ungar, | Title: Admissions Staff Faces 6500 Choices | 3/26/1965 | See Source »

Although it expected a definite increase in applicants, the Admissions Office was uncertain throughout the fall at what point the onslaught would stop. The first accomodation to this year's increase--one staff member called it a "way to buy time for ourselves"--was a cutback in the old A-B-C rating system, which gave early notification of standing to seniors in over 100 schools with par-4FRED L. GLIMP Machines Are Not the Solution...

Author: By A. DOUGLAS Matthews, (SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON) | Title: King's March Reaches Ala. State Capitol | 3/26/1965 | See Source »

...plans for a supersonic transport have had as many ups and downs as a single-prop plane bulling its way through a thunderstorm. Last week President Johnson received the most optimistic report yet on the SST-a report that has suddenly brightened the plane's uncertain prospects. Prepared by the Commerce Department, it bases its favorable analysis of the 1,900-m.p.h., 150-passenger plane on several new economic and technical discoveries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aviation: Push for the SST | 3/19/1965 | See Source »

...Pursuit. Johnson had originally scheduled the air attacks for Feb. 19. But in Viet Nam the weather and the political climate are both uncertain, and coups or clouds kept getting in the way. Finally 19 propeller-driven South Vietnamese Skyraiders and 20 U.S. Air Force Super Sabres took off from Danang and headed for the North Vietnamese torpedo-boat base at Quangkhe, 65 miles north of the 17th parallel. There they relentlessly clobbered berths, repair shops, ammo dumps and supply warehouses with 70 tons of bombs, destroying an estimated 70% of the targets and sinking three to five PT boats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign Relations: While the Bullets Whiz | 3/12/1965 | See Source »

...That was the way the eyes had it one evening last week at the preview of an exhibition of op art held by Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art. Origin of that uncertain feeling was not only the 123 pieces of calculated retina-wrenching on the museum walls. Many of the previewers seemed as bent as the artists on manipulating the wandering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fashion: Will the Real Picture Please Sit Down? | 3/5/1965 | See Source »

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