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...more than 400 radio stations carrying "hysterical" rightist radio programs and that an estimated $14 million is spent yearly on rightist publications. "I have just a few samples here," he said, and then proceeded with great relish to read selections such as "Register Communists, Not Rifles" from a giant folder of Congressional
Cigar clenched at a jaunty angle between his teeth, manila folder clamped firmly under his arm, Arthur Schlesinger bustled about the corridors of the White House in brisk, choppy steps, now stopping in for a chat with the President, now exchanging gossip with a colleague, now hurrying off to a meeting in the Cabinet Room. Rare was the party that he missed. He turned up regularly at Bobby Kennedy's Hickory Hill seminars, and once, fully dressed, he slipped or was pushed (the record does not show which) into Bobby's pool. He seemed to know everybody-actresses...
Like the others in the group, Dennis has been deferred by his draft board, but "only because I'm really a sick guy," he explains. His thick medical folder didn't impress the board at first, although he has something he calls "cancerous arthritis." He was finally deferred because he threatened to kill himself if the psychiatrist didn't recommend a deferment. "I'd clear all American soldiers out of Vietnam," he volunteered. "Then I'd send a note to Red China saying, 'You've got 20 minutes. The bombs are on their...
...right for the school. The key to acceptance often lies in the references they supply for their child, influential names collected from family friends or at cocktail parties and business lunches. But an admissions director deluged with reference letters may observe the old rule of thumb that "a thick folder indicates a thick boy." An edge is conceded to parents with prominent names or prominent bank accounts; yet any hint that they are trying to buy their way in, explains Henry D. Tiffany Jr., headmaster of Allen-Stevenson, "is practically the kiss of death...
...Reading folders is the only way to handle the serious problem of how to weight subjective information, according to David K. Smith '58, assistant director of Admissions and Freshman Scholarships. He calls folder reading a "luxury" in Harvard admissions that has become the only way to give so many candidates personal attention...