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Proponents of the higher standard claim that 560 is an object of ridicule by many students. In fact, most regard it not as an affront but as merely another regulation, not a very accurate measure of achievement, but hardly worthy of much attention. A substitution of the CEEB tests for the Harvard test might well improve the efficiency of the evaluating process; raising the level required, on the other hand, would only increase undergraduate irritation. Even a student who approves of Gen Ed in principle is likely to complain about having to participate in it. A high language standard...
...Forest Lawn, the West Covina vigilantes were a painful affront. Forest Lawn likes to think of itself as a kind of necro-politan neighborhood improvement society. The verdant lawns and artfully sunlit edifices of the first Forest Lawn in Glendale contain, advertises Eaton, the largest collection of statuary in the U.S., as well as 200,000 "loved ones." The cemetery draws 1,000,000 tourists a year, has net assets of more than $16 million, and last year grossed - tax-exempt - $2,300,000. It has also planted two little Forest Lawns in Hollywood Hills and Cypress, Calif...
Jock of course takes it all as a personal affront, and when the new boy outrages the other officers too-by suggesting that the manner of their footing in the fling, a point of pride in kilted regiments, is a disgrace to Scotland-Jock sees his chance and takes it. At the next regimental rout he defiantly leads a drunken reel. The colonel throws a tantrum, disgracing him self before his officers and the battalion before its guests. But the triumph and the whisky go to Jock's head, and he makes an even more costly blunder than...
...President's speech to the convention (see box) brought still another ovation, another remarkable show of affection that even he had not expected. The talk itself was a resounding defense of the Eisenhower years and a challenge to the Democratic affront, as he saw it, that the U.S. is "second best." He was interrupted by vigorous applause no less than 72 times. Still glowing over his reception, Ike turned in another rare performance with an extemporaneous talk next morning at a breakfast for 600 Republicans. "In the operation of any great human organization," he said, "constructive plans and programs...
...have not been on speaking terms for years. Mrs. Davis, who takes an active interest in the Post and serves as its secretary-treasurer, cannot understand her sister for taking no interest at all. Thus, when May Bonfils Stanton sold her stock, Mrs. Davis took it as a personal affront...