Word: 99th
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...scores of the Cooperative Tests of the Educational Records Bureau in American History, a score which would put an independent school student in the 78th percentile ranking would put him into the 99th percentile ranking of a Southern high school. If the same student ranked in the 50th percentile in the independent scale, he would place in the 91st bracket of Southern schools. These figures do indicate that the Southern high schools are considerably behind the private schools, but the Midwestern or Eastern public schools would rank somewhere in the middle of these two extremes...
...Lederle's research director. Since 1955, he has been boss of all sales and market development for Cyanamid's chain of 40 plants producing a widely diversified line of 6,000 products. ¶ James O. Plinton, World War II ferry pilot and flight instructor of the wartime 99th Fighter Squadron (all Negro) at Tuskegee, Ala., became executive assistant to the director of personnel and industrial relations of Trans World Airlines-one of the few Negroes in an executive capacity in a major U.S. airline. Though T.W.A. had no comment, insiders say that Airman Plinton will help...
Both Chrisman and Pates, who finished 88th and 99th last year, improved their times, but an unusually strong field kept them far down in the rankings. Pates cut 45 minutes off his time, but dropped 22 places to the 121st position. Hideo Hamamura of Japan won the race with a record-breaking...
...Harvard students will compete with more than 200 foreign and American stars in the colorful Boston Marathon tomorrow. Seniors James J. Pates, Jr. and William H. Chrisman, 2nd will enter the event for the second and third times respectively. Chrisman placed 88th and Pates 99th in last year's Marathon...
...course in two hr. 16 min. 37 sec. Last week, running over a different course in the Swedish national championships, Norman lost 20 minutes searching for the third control point, and wound up 115th in a field of 157. The winner: 27-year-old Engineer Nils Lange, who finished 99th in last year's championships...