Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...article entitled "The Colleges of America's Upper Class" in the Nov. 16 Saturday Review, Gene R. Hawes adds this statistic to the recent trend toward intellect-oriented admissions policies, and concludes that "money's close connection with power, education, and refinement has ceased...
...were the "gentlemen's quarters" from the end of the Civil War until the end of World War II. After that, a sudden influx of applications caused the three most prestigious colleges to make a choice between "professed commitment to develop intellect and a long rich association with the upper class." The three, "especially Harvard," decided to replace aristocracy with "meritocracy," writes Hawes...
Partly cloudy, scattered showers, and cool. High in upper...
...Arecibo telescope belongs to the Department of Defense's Advanced Research Projects Agency and cost more than $8,000,000. It was originally conceived by Radio Engineer William E. Gordon of Cornell as a means of studying the electrified layers in the earth's upper atmosphere by shooting enormously powerful radar pulses through them and listening for faint echoes. Since those electrified layers control long-distance radio communication and are involved in attempts to devise some defense against ballistic missiles, almost any information gathered by the scope promises to be worth the price...
...George is a shambling compendium of symbolic British upper-class weaknesses-most of them unwittingly acquired, along with his fringe status as a gentleman, to appease the memory of his socially insecure, non-U mother. He has never held a real job. He is sterile. For years he has been trading on a gentleman's voice and a gentleman's manners, and the kind of charm which, like the ?400 a year income he inherited during World War II, no longer goes as far as it once did. "At some point, now impossible to define," he reflects...