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...opponents so far, McCurdy's runners have effectively kept the pressure on each other. Sophomore Howie Foye, for example, lacked the sharpness Saturday that he exhibited in last week's Brown meet. The result showed five teammates moving past him with Foye dropping to the tenth rung on the ladder...
Behind them the parade continued. Keith Colburn continued his steady progress up the ladder, outlegging sophomore Howie Foye for the fourth position. McCurdy expressed particular pleasure with Foye's "best-ever" performance...
...youth from the ghetto, would perform minor investigative chores, rescue cats, and keep in touch with combustible young people. A police officer, one step higher, would control traffic, hold back crowds at parades, and investigate more serious crimes. A police agent, the best-trained, best-educated man on the ladder, would patrol high-crime areas, respond to delicate racial situations, and take care of tense confrontations...
...patrol car reported seeing a third person atop the crane after the pair descended, but after watching and calling for half an hour, the police decided the object was a rag. The patrol cars and hook and ladder truck then went their ways...
...HATCHETMAN: A literal derivation from the military vocabulary of coIonial America, when a hatchetman, or axman. chopped foliage in advance of troops operating in woods or swamp. On the political ladder, a henchman (etymologically, the Anglo-Saxon hengest-man, or horse groom) is one rung above a hanger-on but one rung below a hatchetman...