Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...convention: Anne Armstrong, co-chairman of the G.O.P. National Committee. Indefatigably amiable, perpetually smiling, cello-voiced, she was charged, appropriately, with winning over Democrats to the Republican ticket. Her speech was perhaps the best offer a Republican ever made a Democrat. She herself is a convert. Brought up in upper-crust Creole society in New Orleans, graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Vassar, she remained a Democrat until-it must be said-she married the very model of a Marlboro man, sandy-haired Tobin Armstrong, whose Texas ranch is measured in miles rather than acres. She has thoughts of running...
...article, entitled Simply "I.Q." said that a virtually hereditary meritocracy based on intellectual abilities will arise as contemporary political and social goals are realized. Herrnstein believes that our society is evolving distinct classes based on intelligence, and that the I.Q. gap between the upper and the lower classes is increasing. This belief in based on his conviction that intelligence is 80 per cent inheritable...
...friends call him, is Harvard's senior administrator, he is not nearly at the top of the University's ladder of power. He is a third echelon administrator, a step below men like Charles P. Whitlock, the dean of the College, who is in turn a step below the upper echelon of men like John T. Dunlop, dean of the Faculty, and, of course, President Derek...
What has changed Tijuana so dramatically? For one thing, competition. Tougher Mexican laws and more liberal U.S. attitudes shrank the market for "attractions" such as divorces, abortions, prostitution and sex shows. "We simply could not compete with upper California," says one Tijuanan, only partly in jest. Also, the town grew rapidly in size (from 160,000 in 1960 to 450,000 today) and in civic pride, which could not tolerate the sincity image...
...kind of history. One of her achievements, in fact, is the sense of historic perspective that she brings to a roiling subject. But as has happened to many others who have reported it, Viet Nam has taken over her life. Though she now lives on Manhattan's Upper East Side, she still reads military bulletins the way a horse player studies the form. She knows why the B-52s are striking certain targets. When she gets together with other veterans of Viet Nam reporting like Gloria Emerson, David Halberstam and journalists on leave from Saigon, she says, "The conversation...