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...limitations of the S.A.T.s than the Educational Testing Service of Princeton, N.J., which produces and administers the tests, along with achievement exams in such specific fields as history and French, for the 782 colleges and universities that belong to the College Entrance Examination Board. Officials of E.T.S. continually warn colleges that the two S.A.T. exams (verbal and mathematical, scored from 0 to 800) are blunt rather than surgical instruments, and should not be used as the main standard in selecting students. Even E.T.S. officials rate high school grades as a better indication of how a student will perform in college...
...more often, Catholic authors and publishers are simply not bothering to ask for imprimaturs, especially for books-like those attacking clerical celibacy-that would not be likely to get them anyway. So far at least, there have been no concerted complaints from the hierarchy (though bishops still occasionally warn their flocks against books they dislike), and students of church law agree that the rules on imprimaturs would simply fall into disuse if enough publishers and writers ignored them...
...McCarthy alone. No fewer than nine major groups of Democrats are determined to dispossess the President, to reverse his Viet Nam policies, or both. Dissenting Democrats, an outfit headed by Actor Robert (The Man From U.N.C.L.E.) Vaughn, is placing ads in 25 newspapers to warn the President: "From this day on, our campaign funds, our energies and our votes go to those, and only those, who work for an end to the war in Viet Nam." In Chicago at week's end, the Conference of Concerned Democrats met to chart plans for slates opposed to Johnson in 15 states...
...principal or headmaster of both schools are holding special assemblies to warn students that the game will not be played at Harvard again if any disruptive activity occurs...
...relieve the magazine's annual deficit of $200,000 or so, Buckley contributes his own substantial earnings from his column, from Firing Line, and from his lectures (fee per appearance: $1,000). Nevertheless, every year he has to warn of the magazine's imminent extinction unless contributions are forthcoming. The latest appeal, last June, brought 2,000 contributions, enough to make up the loss...