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...first day on the job, I shelled out 89 cents for a Super-Saver polyester tie. Damned if I was going to stain a real tie with discount spaghetti sauce. Next, I had to get trained. The manager assigned me to John, high-school dropout and expert on stock-boying. John, however, was reluctant to share his expertise, and I was forced to teach myself tricks such as keeping my thumb out of the way of the razor blade carton opener and making sure that all the cans of toilet bowl disinfectant had their labels facing the customers...
DIED. George Raft, 85, actor who epitomized the tightlipped, coolly menacing tough guy in such films as Each Dawn I Die (1939) and Mr. Ace (1946); of emphysema; in Los Angeles. A grade-school dropout who grew up in New York City's Hell's Kitchen, Raft took jobs as a prizefighter, a baseball player and an exhibition dancer before he was discovered by a director at Hollywood's Brown Derby restaurant and won the movie roles that led to his breakthrough in Scarface (1932). In his later years his career lagged, and he was barred from...
Rising from the Irish section of South Boston, the eighth-grade dropout became speaker of the House in 1962 when Sam Rayburn died. He retired in 1971 at the age of 80, after serving under seven presidents...
...touch with the society it is serving. Two recent vacancies on the D.C. Court of Appeals attracted a pool of more than 90 applicants, many of them highly qualified, and even Harold Tyler admits that the quality of the federal judiciary has not suffered yet. Nor does the rising dropout rate unnerve some observers who are familiar with high Government turnover. Says Alfred Zuck, executive director of the quadrennial salary commission: "The numbers are large only in relation to history." In all, the judges have a long way to go to prove their case, and they face a tough jury...
...survey of a national sample of private and public institutions by Langley A. Spurlock for the American Council on Education discovered that the first-year attrition rate for minorities is higher than for non-minorities but that the dropout rates for these two groups of undergraduates "approach each other after the first year and ultimately become insignificantly different...