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Eugene Welljamsdorf'73, a firstyear Med student, said two weeks ago that the drop in the boards owed partly to the advent of pass/fail grading, but he added that the faculty's despair over the test scores is not valid...
...analogy" between her abduction and the police capture of two suspected S.L.A. members now charged with the murder last November of Dr. Marcus Foster, the black superintendent of schools in Oakland. Authorities expect that Patricia's kidnapers may well ultimately demand their release. Beyond that, some law-enforcement officials despair that, following the skyjacking syndrome, the S.L.A.'s sudden notoriety may already have loosed the seed of example for future senseless terrorism?even if, like kidnapers in the great majority of cases handled by the FBI, this group is caught...
...Paul Carter's formal view of a tuberculous family in New York is touched with an eerie stillness. But the exchange is certainly marked by what Stryker describes as "a natural regard for human dignity." Says Stryker: "Experts have said to me that's the face of despair. And I say, look again. You see in those faces something that transcends despair...
...Sirica, who headed the list of reader nominations, was also the first choice of the editors. "I plan to keep it," wrote one reader when the Man of the Year cover appeared, "as a reminder for my family and myself that there can be hope in the midst of despair...
...longer dominate Nigerian commerce or the civil service as they did before the war, they are reconciled to the new order. Gowon is determined that neither they nor any other tribal group shall ever again attain such a preponderant role. "That is the road back to regional rivalry and despair," he says. "We must be proud of our origins, but work for true nationhood as Nigerians all together...