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Despite its manifest virtues it will take you only so far up the social ladder. For the top reaches of formality--diplomatic receptions and formal weddings held in the evening--you will need white tie and tails...
...drawn from the top 30 per cent of high school graduates, he gives no suggestions as to how this should be done, Sizer said. He claimed that the teaching profession today is nowhere near Conant's goal: too often teachers come not from the top of the academic ladder but from the bottom...
...last year. Both have Southern ties: Kendall was a football tackle for Western Kentucky State College; Austin spent his early youth in LaGrange, Ga., before moving up to Harvard Law School. Both are unusually young to head major corporations: Kendall is 42, Austin 48. Both advanced up the corporate ladder through the export division, an operation that now significantly accounts for 41% of Pepsi's sales and 42% of Coke...
Though the Jews have scaled the social ladder faster than any other group, Glazer and Moynihan believe that they remain a separate community. Today's middle-and upper-class Jews tend to live together as much as the first Jewish immigrants who crowded into the Lower East Side. Many of the suburbs where Jews have moved have become almost solidly Jewish. This is not so much a matter of discrimination as of choice. Jews are building more synagogues and parochial schools than ever...
...might just hold off Sonny for six or seven rounds. Terrell is not a flashy fighter, but his strike and clinch style makes excellent use of his exceptional size. Terrell has beaten Cleveland "Cat" Williams and most recently the young giant sent aging Zora Folley stumbling down the heavyweight ladder, presumably for the last time...