Word: unknowns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...naturally exclude large numbers of poor people, among whom Negroes most often find themselves. Sometimes prospective jurors are required to be of a certain "moral character" or "intelligence" or "uprightness." The highly subjective determination of such qualities is entirely up to the jury commissioners, and illiterate jurors are not unknown in the South...
Scornfully nominated last week for its worst Busters were the unknown riflemen who last summer slaughtered more than 100 sea lions on California's Santa Barbara Island, then bravely blew up the unattended ranger station. Second award went to the unidentified vandals who, late last fall in the Cascades, demolished George Tanner's parked Volkswagen while he lay dying of cold and exposure a few hundred yards away...
...apprentice system," says Nina Hill-garth, head of Harvard's graduate admissions office. "In effect, professors are picking their own successors, and they do it very carefully." This puts the small-college senior, whose faculty is less famous, at a disadvantage. But Harvard accepted one applicant whose unknown professor topped his letter of recommendation in big block letters: TAKE THIS MAN! Harvard also took the applicant who pleaded in the margin: "Help me!" "We found this irresistible," recalls Cavell. "He dropped out after one term." But generally, "You can't con an admissions committee," says Cavell...
...speed that would indicate they are billions of light-years away. Instead, says Arp, the red shift could be caused by an immense quasar gravitational field, by the high velocity of material falling toward the center of quasars that are suffering catastrophic collapse, or by "some as yet unknown cause...
Baldschun figures in the bullpen along with Bill McCool, Roger Craig, and Ted Davidson. But both Pappas and Baldschun have had their troubles this spring and remain virtually unknown entities as the season opens. Hitting--even in the absence of Robinson--and defense should pose few problems for Heffner. Rookie sensation Tommy Helms, at second base, will add extra punch to the lineup...