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Under first-year coach Stephanie Johnson, the Radcliffe team faced strong Ivy League and regional competition this winter, winding up the season with a 2-5 record in dual meets. The squad finished tenth in New England and twelfth at the Easterns...

Author: By Karen M. Bromberg, | Title: 'Cliffe Swim Captains Elected | 4/16/1976 | See Source »

Jean Mayer, professor of Nutrition and master of Dudley House, will be named the tenth president of Tufts University today, marking the end of a nine-month search in which nearly 400 candidates were considered...

Author: By Kenichi Takeshita, | Title: Jean Mayer to Be Appointed president of Tufts University | 3/22/1976 | See Source »

...first reason for coming to Harvard: the influence of the United States Information Agency office in "their" city. The student also has apparently imbibed enough American values to say that the smartest students do well and advance through the examination system in "their" country; class differences--between say, the tenth child of a poor peasant and the son of an English-educated civil servant--do not affect the fairness of this kind of system, "they" says. Although not interested in politics, the student does sympathize with China's solution to the causes of underdevelopment, but "they" says it does...

Author: By James I. Kaplan, | Title: Elite Students: A Silence Between Two Cultures | 3/17/1976 | See Source »

...Radcliffe squad had problems in Friday's giant slalom. Lenny Wilson turned in the best performance with a tenth. Carlyle Singer did not finish, and Karen Linsley barely completed the course after falling twice on an injured ankle...

Author: By John Blondel, | Title: Harvard Skiers Surprising in Canada, While Repeated Mishaps Foil Radcliffe | 3/16/1976 | See Source »

Without a single dissent or abstention, the 5,000 Soviet delegates to the Congress ratified the new five-year plan, tenth in the country's history. Running from 1976 through 1980, the plan aims to boost output by 38% to 42% a year in heavy industry, by 14% to 17% in agriculture. Consumer goods are to grow at 30% to 32%; this sector enjoyed priority over heavy industry during the ninth plan, which ended in 1975 (TIME, March 1), but as Kosygin conceded, "Light industry and other industrial branches on which consumer goods depend have not yet lived...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOVIET UNION: Rubber-Stamping the Status Quo | 3/15/1976 | See Source »

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