Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...leading colleges toward its admissions candidates. The extent to which this policy has manifested itself these past two years is noteworthy. We cannot help feeling sorry for the high-school senior who has maintained a straight A average for four years and has scored consistently in the mid-to-upper 700s on the College Board exams-and who is rejected at the school of his choice simply because he is not "different." Nevertheless, the striving of this nation's colleges for diversity and individuality among its student body is indeed commendable. Even here at Yale, where undergraduate education...
...brother Philip, former Nebraska Lieutenant Governor, Kennedy's team last week was busily imitating McCarthy tactics by dispatching scores of student volunteers to canvass at least 200,000 Democratic households. In Indiana, Bobby's admirers had become dangerously demonstrative. Jostled by crowds in Mishawaka, he banged his upper lip on a car, chipping a front tooth...
About 15 per cent of the Republicans voting in today's primary crossed over to vote for Branigin and McCarthy. Kennedy tried to discourage GOP crossovers. Branigin's Republican votes came primarily from lower and lower-middle class voters. McCarthy's crossover votes came from middle and upper-class voters in suburban and university communities...
Incensed at South Africa's hypocrisy -integration abroad, apartheid at home -at least 40 nations announced that they would boycott the Olympics unless the invitation was rescinded. In some cases it was an empty threat: such small countries as Malawi and Upper Volta are not recognized by the I.O.C. and could not compete in Mexico anyway. The clincher came when the Soviet Union threatened to pull out and a number of top U.S. Negro athletes opted to boycott too. That kind of pressure, plus the worldwide reaction to Martin Luther King's assassination, left the I.O.C. with only...
...look-alike of Max Lerner if his hair is short, and a look-alike of Norman Mailer if his hair is long. He is a short man with a deep voice sometimes approaching a whisper. His features are cramped into the lower half of his face, leaving the upper half all forehead. When he interviewed me at dinner a few months ago, he smiled often, and his conversation was an anecdotal as his profile-writing. Keeping his notebook far over to the right of the table, he took notes as unobtrusively as possible, looking down only when he somehow knew...