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For 18 months, Hamilton Holmes, 19, and Charlayne Hunter, 18, had tried to get into the university.

They graduated together from Atlanta's Turner High School, where Valedictorian Holmes was first in the class and Charlayne third.

The university rejected them on a variety of pretexts, but was careful never to mention the color of their skins.

Holmes went to Atlanta's Morehouse ( Negro ) College, where he is a B student and star halfback.

Charlayne studied journalism at Detroit's Wayne State University.

Last fall, after they took their hopes for entering Georgia to court, Judge Bootle ordered them to apply again.