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...engineering course at Stanford University to go to work as an S.P. timekeeper. Promoted to a $200-a-month engineering job, he asked for a 45?-an-hour laborer's job to get more track experience. Later, he took over as deputy engineer to double-track the Sierra crest, moved up steadily and, in 1952, became president...
...unheard of complaint from a basketball coach. "I have so many tall men, I just don't know what to do!" he exclaimed. "It I ever started them all at once, they'd just clutter up the floor." Until Jan. 10, when the Freshmen rolled into Dartmouth on the crest of a four-game winning streak and were rolled right out on the short end of a 66-59 score, no one could imagine that Munro could have any complaints. With a defeat things have returned to reality...
Sargent seemed to be coasting on the crest of the wave; yet in a way, he was trapped by his own success. Francis Taylor, who once visited Sargent, remembers him as "a thoroughly tamed and domesticated animal, who lived only for his painting and for no other purpose...
Because of the success of the American economic system, the U.S. rolled through 1955 in two-toned splendor to an alltime crest of prosperity, heralded around the world. Much of this prosperity was directly attributable to the manufacture and sale of that quintessential American product, the automobile. Some 8,000,000 of them were produced and sold, and a good half of them were made and marketed by General Motors under the direction of President Harlow Herbert Curtice-the Man of the Year...
...National Forest lookout sighted smoke from the nearby McGee ranch. At 6 p.m., despite fire crews and bulldozers, the McGee fire topped a ridge and ran wild. Normally, air conditions at nightfall and along ridge lines slow down forest fires, but that evening hungry breezes sucked flames over the crest and down through the forest. Hundreds of spot-blazes flared up behind the fire crews, who pulled back fast. Thereafter, the fire and the fight raged for days...