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Since administrative obstacles still seem to plague the union of Harvard and Radcliffe, why not solve the problem more simply by making both institutions coeducational? If there is a problem of imbalance in the ratio of applicants to places in one institution or the other, applicants could be advised that their applications would be automatically transferred-and reminded that graduates of both institutions receive a Harvard degree...
Mainly through Kerr's Washington influence, the eastern part of the state has been transformed from dusty scrub land into an aquatic paradise. Its 679 square miles of water make its ratio of water to land higher than Minnesota's. The Oologah, Pensacola and Eufaula reservoirs are immense. Keystone, Heyburn, Thunderbird, Hulah-the lakes multiply as fast as Senate bills. Atoka, Fort Gibson, Markham Ferry, Tenkiller Ferry, Wister; the new recreational waters created by dams abound with boats, water-skiers and fishermen. They also mean more tourists and more money...
Despite the absence of violence, few white Mississippians were ready to welcome the decision of the court. Only in districts with a high ratio of whites to blacks did desegregation bring a measure of integration. In Columbia, where whites outnumber blacks 3 to 1, high school students ignored eight pickets outside and sat down together in an assembly hall to cheer a black student leader who urged them to make their town "a lighthouse in Marion County." In Yazoo City, where the student population is almost evenly divided between whites and blacks, a majority of the whites showed...
...here have got to learn to live together in this situation," explains Don McGraw, personnel director of the Mississippi Chemical Corp. "It is upon us." Like McGraw, a majority of Yazoo City whites are willing to keep their children in the public schools unless the ratio of blacks to whites gets too high, something that is not likely to happen if the parents themselves refuse, as they have commendably done so far, to panic...
...Serafini said that the Dunster House plan was better than the other three because it would allow for the most even ratio between men and women...