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Krueger is also a former professor, whose specialty is Shakespearean literature. He quickly climbed the success ladder at Duke University to become dean of arts and sciences, just as he has scaled it in Texas politics. And he makes no bones about the fact that he wants to be President someday. Bob Krueger, to say the least, is an ambitious...
...cues and set the swift pace essential for building and maintaining tension. Gerber displays a deft hand for creating effective stage pictures. When Mary extorts the gossip from her schoolmates that she will use to tar Karen and Martha, Gerber places her high above them on a ladder, smiling evilly down on the hapless girls. Again, during the scene of Mary's accusation, Gerber stands the teachers just outside the room, their faces shadowed by elaborate lattice doors...
...space there will almost double the level of activity that the school had last year in Littauer Center. A five year plan calls for student enrollment to reach a peak of 500 and the addition of seven executive programs (short intensive programs for people already high on the ladder of government) to the three now in existence. The faculty will increase from 30 to 50 members and the number of research programs from one (the Center for Science and International Affairs...
...plastic rods (at $1 a pair) to miraculous electronic black boxes (price: $65) that purportedly "discharge toxic vibrations from your mind, emotions and etheric body." Explains Raymond Willey, the society's secretary and a retired General Electric engineer: "Dowsing for water is only the bottom rung of the ladder. Now these powers are used for everything from determining what foods to eat to finding lost objects and people...
...Belluno, he began his pastoral ladder climbing, first to vicar general of that diocese, then, in 1958, to Bishop of Vittorio Veneto, another local diocese subject to Venice. When two local priests there were accused of piling up heavy debts and overdrawing their checking accounts, Luciani summoned his 400 priests for a stern sermon. The church, he reminded them, was to be identified with the poor Then he paid the debts of his free-spending priests out of diocesan funds...