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...store. Down the block, two old Negro men were sitting on a stoop, looking up the street at the flames. "See that kid run in there with that fire bomb?" one said. The other nodded. Within seconds, two fire trucks had begun heaving water. One of them hoisted a ladder with a hose attached over the flames and water poured down on them like a waterfall. Firemen moved to the three-story tenement next door; it was in danger of going up next. They carried out three children and helped five or six adults to safety. Everyone stood...
...absences and deaths caused by heart disease, Hinkle and his colleagues found that workmen, foremen and clerical employees experienced more heart ailments and coronary deaths than managerial personnel at all age levels. In fact, the incidence of heart ailments decreased on each succeeding higher rung of the executive ladder. Supported by funds from the National Heart Institute, the study also showed that the most rapidly promoted men suffered no more - and usually less - heart dis ease than employees who remained at lower levels. Managers transferred from one Bell System company to another-considered prime stress targets because of the domestic...
...situation--and there are many Old Guard educators who deplore it--the fact remains: the modern American college has gone a long way toward redefining its function by the mere process of redefining its student body. The college was yesterday what graduate school is today in the educational step-ladder: it has become what high school used to be. Students don't go to college now to become teachers or professional academics, although they may later go to grad school for this purpose. They go with all-defined but very real expectations, recognizing that the complexity of our society demands...
...fresh Viet Cong growing increasingly difficult, more and more North Vietnamese are infiltrating the South in order to fill the ranks. Westmoreland estimates that the average Viet Cong main-force unit is now 10% North Vietnamese. NVA units have lately been found operating as far down the command ladder as squad-size in hamlets. And two weeks ago in the Delta, hitherto the exclusive preserve of indigenous Viet Cong, the first North Vietnamese soldier was captured...
During the two unbroken hours of action that followed, Actor Yan Brian recited a passage from Thus Spake Zarathustra while climbing a ladder, male dancers struggled for balls of rolled-up newspapers, a black-clad hag buzzed around on a scooter and recited folk poems. Men and women frugged wildly to rock-'n'-roll music, imitated coitus to electronic pings and a soft-voiced reading of the Song of Songs, staged a mock war between classical and modern ballet, and ended looking up expectantly while the noise of jet engines screamed overhead. Then, during ten minutes of bravos...