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There has been no such clear concern on the part of Harvard with sex-blind admissions. Absent are the massive petition drives, meetings with corporation trustees, and face-to-face discussions with faculty, Administration, and alumni. Rather, the Harvard-Radcliffe student body seems to be content with a planned 2.5:1 male-female ratio by 1974. Discussions center more on the new girls in the Yard and the number of Cliffies in Kirkland House. In general, the student body at Harvard appear to be sleep-walking through the halls of coeducation...
After landing at Rome's Ciampino airport, Perón greeted a moderately enthusiastic crowd of fellow Argentines with a smiling "?Bueno, bueno!" But it was not exactly a triumphal arrival. Among those absent was Argentina's anti-Peronist ambassador to Rome; he was at the Italian foreign office demanding to know why Perón, who is not a head of state, had been met at the airport by the public relations head of the government-run broadcasting system. The answer was that the p.r. man was a good friend...
...wines can be "acid" (tart, sour, with the bite of natural fruit acids), "astringent" (puckery, like a cup of strong tea), or "balanced" (with just the right combination of acid, tannin and alcohol). They can be "big" (with a detectable heaviness on the tongue, not light or watery), "clean" (absent of extraneous tastes like cork or oak), "flinty" (dry and sharp), "full-bodied" (thick, robust), and "maderise" (from Madeira; turned slightly brown with age, past the prime). They can be "petillant" (slightly sparkling or effervescent), "thin" (deficient in alcohol or body, watery), or "woody" (with an overbearing taste...
...interest. With or without surprises, Election Day was bound to be more exciting than the campaign. Whatever the outcome this week, most Americans would probably be relieved that it was over, that the country could get on with its pressing business in a seriousness that somehow has been absent for much of the political year...
...Hawk, that seemed enough to get Corona out on bail-after more than 500 days of incarceration (and two heart attacks). Indeed, at the courtroom hearing, with the jury absent, Judge Patton excoriated the prosecution for what "almost approaches dereliction of duty. I just don't understand how [the case] could have been prepared in this manner." Then Prosecutor Williams claimed he no longer had reasonable doubt, partly because he had just found that he really did have tire tracks that matched Corona's truck after all; the correct tire-track specimen had simply been mislaid...