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Meredith began passing in the second grade in Mt. Vernon, Texas, where he toddled into the state's cradle-robbing system of organized football. By his senior year in high school, Meredith was all-state in both football and basketball. At S.M.U. he is a business major (C average), counts the days until Christmas vacation when he will marry blonde Cheerleader Lynne Shamburger, wears a complete wardrobe from his father's dry-goods store in Mt. Vernon, and grins at the standard campus gag: Meredith has done more for Mt. Vernon than George Washington...
...Raymond Vernon, professor of International Trade and Investment, is currently directing the nation's first comprehensive study of a metropolitan area in 30 years...
...series of nine books published by Harvard University Press, Vernon and his colleagues will relate the findings of the three-year survey. The first, Anatomy of a Metropolis, by Vernon and Edgar M. Hoover '28, professor of Economics at University of Pittsburgh, was published last Monday...
After exploring the reasons for growing "grey areas" and decreasing population in the nation's old cities, the book examines the causes and results of the general factory "flight to the suburbs." The chief result, according to Vernon and Hoover, is the appearance of suburban slums...
...five Sloan Scholars are Dwight M. Bissell, David E. Crandall, Frank N. Newman, John F. Schivell, and Vernon F. Strand. All of the award winners plan to concentrate in science or engineering fields...