Bright Students at U S Military Academies Examined
Education Today reports on admissions at U S service academies with data on SAT verbal and math middle 50 percent ranges across the Air Force Academy Coast Guard Academy Merchant Marine Academy Military Academy and Naval Academy. It notes emphasis on whole person criteria and physical standards.
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U.S. Military Academies
Patricia McCormack
UPI
Harvard
Yale
Princeton
College Entrance Examination Board
U. S. Naval Academy
Annapolis
eThe U.S. Air Force Academy
Colorado Springs
Colo
eThe U.S. Coast Gard Academy
New London
Conn
eThe U.S. Merchant Marine Academy
Kings Point
N.Y
E U.S. Military Academy
West Point
Merchant Marine Academy
Army
Coast Guard
Coast Guard Academy
U.S. Military Academy
Doctor Fleeing U S Practice to Open Yemen Clinic
Dr. Byron R. Berglund 50 leaves a San Pedro obstetrics gynecology practice after 20 years and six-figure income. He and his wife Kay join the Peace Corps to open a clinic in North Yemen near Sana, living in a mud hut and training midwives to improve health amid malaria tuberculosis and malnutrition.
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Emanuel Parker Copley
Byron R. Berglund
Berglund
San Pedro
Calif
Peace Corps
Kay
North Yemen
Yemen
Breaker 29 for Time Check Expands CB Channels Jan 1
The FCC approves expanding from 23 to 40 CB channels, effective January 1, 1977. Manufacturers may introduce 27 megahertz radios with more channels, costing 10 to 15 percent more. Existing 23 channel sets remain usable, while prices on them may fall as new models hit the market.
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Mike McCormack
KDY
Copley News Service
Federal Communications Commission
FCC
Cbs
Two Varieties Of Plantlovers
Denver report says a U S Department of Agriculture scientist split plant lovers into two groups at the Florists' Transworld Delivery convention. The "high brows" use scientific names. others treat plants as pets naming specimens "baby" and "sweetie."
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Denver
VPI
United States
Henry Marc Cathey
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Florists
Transworld Delivery
Cathey
American patents rise in Soviet Union filings this year
UPI reports American patent registrations in the Soviet Union are rising after a 1975 dip. Through Moscow filings this year total 615 American patents and trademarks and 2,547 foreign patents. firms include Stauffer Chemical, Merck, Xerox, UOP, and RCA.
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Leroy Pope
UPI
New York
Soviet Union
Moscow
U.S
Russia
Stauffer Chemical
Merck
Xerox
UOP
RCA
Asian Children's Books Criticized in New Study
A ten year analysis by the Asian American Children's Book Project finds most of 66 examined books on Asian Americans racist sexist and elitist and mislead readers about Asian American life. The study funded by the Council on Interracial Books for Children says only one or two works avoid these flaws.
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New York
API
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Israel
Philharmonic
Wales
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America Israel Cultural Foundation
Odyssey Records
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Business Today
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U.S.U.S.S.R
M.L. Gorodisskiy
Chamber of Commerce and Industry of
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Journal of the Council
Josef Stalin
Goroditskiy
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