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Sunday April 26, 1970
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This Day In 1970's History: Sunday April 26, 1970
  • Admissions officers at the prestige private colleges are expressing fear that rising costs are making their campuses inaccessible for the middle-income student. With applications for admissions down at Harvard, Radcliffe and other top Eastern universities, educators are worried that their campuses are attracting only the rich and the scholarship-supported poor. [New York Times]

  • Resistance against a proposed three-day rock festival in southern Illinois includes Gov. Richard Ogilvie, Senator Ralph Smith and hundreds of concerned citizens. The trend against festivals is not confined to Illinois. Community pressure has canceled musical extravaganzas across the nation. [New York Times]

  • Chancellor Willy Brandt's efforts to improve West German ties with Eastern Europe have led to trouble with his coalition partner, Walter Scheel. Mr. Brandt sent a letter to the Polish Communist party leader in an effort to improve relations but failed to inform Mr. Scheel, his Foreign Minister, about the letter. [New York Times]

  • Dr. William Masters and Virginia Johnson, two experts on human sexuality, have developed an intensive two-week course for the treatment of sexual inadequacy. In their new book "Human Sexual Inadequacy", which details their research, the authors "conservatively guesstimate" that half of all American marriages are threatened by sexual dysfunction. [New York Times]

  • The Cambodian government reported that its troops had captured Angtassom, but reporters trying to reach the town, 40 miles south of Phnom Penh, said that Viet Cong forces still held the outlying roads. In another development, a five-man South Vietnamese delegation arrived in Phnom Penh for consultations with the Cambodian government. [New York Times]
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