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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Neal, a junior, along with John Emery, is a linebacker in Harvard's unconventional "fifty-defense," which employs two linebackers instead of the usual four. Neal and Emery have made a total of 73 unassisted tackles, 31 of them by Neal...
...this time the usual attrition processes have failed; most of those freshmen pre-meds are still with it. Add to them the number who normally decide, while here, to go into medicine, and you have about 225. Stack on top of that about 50 who have felt the zeitgeist, in the person of affable General Hershey, breathing down their necks, and you have 275. Since it usually takes at least two years to finish the pre-med requirements, the full impact of revoking other graduate school deferments could not be felt until this year...
...THEREIN lies the tragedy of the situation. For the instant pre-meds have, on the average, more impressive academic records. Some medical schools will try to weed out "draft-dodgers," but, as usual, grades will prevail. Which can only mean that many of the pre-meds who were planning to be doctors, not researchists, will find themselves in February with a fistful of rejections--or clutching tightly the letter of acceptance from one of their "insurance" schools, and being damn grateful they have...
Under the A.I.A. plan, a motorist who desired protection against damage to his own automobile would be obliged to buy regular collision, fire, theft or comprehensive insurance. Instead of the usual liability policy, however, he would carry compulsory coverage under which he (and his passengers) would be reimbursed immediately by his own insurance company-not the other drivers'-for all hospital and medical expenses, damage to property other than automobiles and lost wages of up to $750 a month for an unlimited period...
...cannot decide what novçelist's nightmare she has stumbled upon. Confronting a homicidal maniac, she says: "I was drifting between James M. Cain and Kathleen Norris." Unfortunately, that is also the drift of Sagan's seventh novel, which is a little more weird than her usual blend of native wit and updated Colette. The characters and setting are American, but Dorothy Seymour, Hollywood scriptwriter, may as well be one of Sagan's Parisian cocottes: she wears St. Laurent copies, vacations on the Riviera, suffers liver attacks and has a quintessentially Gallic attitude toward love...