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Ziolkowski quickly showed that he had the energy to go with his size and ambition. Ax on shoulder, he went into the woods, felled and milled timber, and built with his own hands a house at the foot of the mountain and a 7Oo-ft. ladder up its side. For two years, until he rigged a makeshift cable hoist and then built a road to the top, he lugged lumber and equipment up the mountain, piece by piece, on his back. He made a model and set out to carve out of the rock mountain the figure of Crazy Horse...
...repeated efforts to find or create an acceptable course in the biological sciences form one example. It would be hard to tell whether this influence has yet spread to other departments, but it certainly affects the many teaching fellows the Committee employs, the men who will climb the academic ladder to tenure in the departments eventually. This effect can certainly be expected to increase...
...around the fact that Eula, daughter of the old. failed squire Varner, has become pregnant-though nobody is sure by whom. Varner marries her off to Flem Snopes, who advances from shortest-order cook to bank vice president, then moves up several more rungs of Jefferson's social ladder when he permits "Major" De Spain to cuckold him with Eula. His motives are Snopesean and Faulknerian: through a kind of sexual osmosis, he hopes that the Snopes family tree will flourish by association with the aristocratic De Spain. The gentle, white-haired local lawyer, Gavin Stevens (left over from...
Junta and Sears won this contest, two sets to one, to remain top team on coach Jack Barnaby's ladder. The rest of the afternoon's action merely served as exercise for the top six singles players and as practice for fourth, fifth and sixth doubles teams...
Perhaps the most encouraging part of this Crimson victory, however, was the performance of the bottom players on the ladder. Al Goldman, Jim Cameron, Ned Weld and Pete Krogh were very impressive in registering wins at seventh, eighth, ninth, and tenth singles, but the important part of their performance came in combining to defeat the number one and two M.I.T. doubles teams...