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Kilson said yesterday that because blacks admitted to Harvard have SAT scores that average 80 to 100 points lower than the Harvard median and their Harvard academic performance is sub-par compared to whites, black admissions standards should be tightened and fewer freshman blacks admitted...
Pittsburgh Steeler Running Back Franco Harris coolly surveyed the pond and the line of trees guarding the 557-yd., par-five hole ahead. Then he belted the ball off the tee with all the power of Jack Nicklaus-but none of the accuracy. Far, far away, the ball hit the roof of a private home. After half a dozen more errant drives, course officials set a limit of twelve strokes per hole and charitably awarded Harris a mere triple bogey for his ordeal. "This isn't my game," he muttered...
Dartmouth displayed the inexperience of a team which competes unranked in the Ivy League. The Hanover team doesn't have a full time coach and their fencing program isn't on a par with Ivy League competition...
...1920s he was widely syndicated, a national institution more or less on a par with his friends Ring Lardner, Will Rogers and Charlie Chaplin. His grand subjects were the quirks of everyday life, things like the difficulty of navigating through revolving doors.or reading a medical thermometer. But Rube Goldberg's zany imagination and zippy drawing style really blossomed with the Inventions of Professor Lucifer Gorgonzola Butts-those incredible falling domino devices that poke fun at the complex concatenations of modern technology by deploying sleepy dogs, melting ice, steam whistles and levers to light a cigar in an open...
...award is made for the work as a whole, which, in order to accommodate the director's self-indulgences, is at least a half-hour longer than good narrative sense dictates; and for one shot in par ticular, in which, having used every silly setup imaginable, Rosenberg finally resorts to photographing some action reflected on the side of a toaster...