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High level scholastic achievement is prerequisite to membership in Phi Beta Kappa, but it takes more than ability to grind out A's like an automatic bottling machine to get the privilege of wearing a Phi Beta Kappa...
...course is not a guaranteed cure-all, the average student improves noticeably, records show. A student who reads at the rate of 200 words a minute at the beginning of the course can often read 400 to 420 words a minute at the end of the month's grind, and still maintain his previous rate of comprehension...
...drivers of the nation's 6,000,000 trucks, wherever they stop-for a cup of coffee, to weigh-in or unload cargoes, at bridges, tunnels or gas stations. Beck's boys will ask to see their union credentials. Drivers that have them will be allowed to grind on. Those that do not will be neatly listed in Beck's books. Later, Teamster organizers will campaign among non-union drivers, pay calls on their employers, persuade them to sign contracts with the mighty Teamsters...
From his cream-colored Beverly Hills mansion, aged (85), ailing William Randolph Hearst periodically sends down orders to the 17 daily Hearstpapers for a new blast against an old hate-the vivisection of animals by medical scientists. Hearstlings dutifully grind out editorials and cartoons assailing vivisectionists as "dog torturers" who experiment on animals for the joy of "seeing them suffer...
...Gordon Weir are entered in the diving contest, but the relay team may have either Tom Woods or Joe Steinhart, either Chuck Bocizer or Larry Ward, and either Bob MacVicar or Joe Fox. Captain Jerry Goodman and 1500-meter champion Ted Norris will compete in the quarter-mile grind...