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...other hand, the number of blacks at elite white colleges some 30 to 40 years earlier was insignificant by comparison. Seldom were there, for example, more than 20 blacks Harvard in any given year during that era. A more fundamental difference, however, was that the small numbers precluded a pattern of all-black peer relationships and pressures. Each black student was forced, therefore, to navigate the unique achievement norms and success-patterns without the intervention of black solidarity agencies and attitudes...
...likes and playing the world-weary aesthete. Asked to submit a story to a school magazine, Haye notes archly that "there is a sense of degradation attached to appearing in print." The young dandy likes to appear cold and aloof: "It sounds an awful thing to write, but I seldom meet anyone who interests me more than myself: my own fault, I suppose...
...committee actions that will lead to more and more "first-class scientists who are destined not to win a Nobel Prize." In part, she notes, these omissions are inevitable, because the number of scientists worldwide has grown some 30 times, while the number of science-prize recipients each year (seldom more than six) has remained more or less constant...
...degree, that is changing. Because industrial peace is so vital to the white supremacist government of Prime Minister John Vorster, labor inspectors seldom object to the bending of apartheid rules even in South African-owned plants. Since the presence of the multinationals is much valued by the regime, they enjoy even more latitude in defying apartheid...
...world has seldom seen such huge international manufacturing alliances as planemakers are now forging. Their aims: to win access to the latest technology, help spread the cost of developing new planes and, not least, to counter nationalistic objections to government airlines buying "foreign" craft. The diplomacy involved can get both complex and testy, as witness the three-cornered negotiations from which Boeing last week came out a big first-round winner...