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With 15.9 percent unsatisfactories the freshman as usual, brought up the tall end of the grade ladder. Fourteen made group one, one more than in the previous year, and 25.7 percent were on the Deans' List (27.3 percent...
...allowing all night parking on one side of the street. Making one side so temptingly legal, the city might coerce the now defiant motorists to park single file in- stead of haphazardly blocking both sides. The Fire Department admits that with one side clear even the chubby hook-and-ladder could slither through the city...
...executive vice president and chief organizer of the C.I.O.; of a heart attack; in Wilkes-Barre, Pa. Hardworking, hard-drinking Allan Haywood, born a miner's son in Yorkshire. England, came to the U.S. in 1906. He followed John L. Lewis and Philip Murray up labor's ladder, recruited unions for the C.I.O., stuck with Murray when Lewis made his trumpeting breakaway in 1942. As right-hand man to ailing President Murray, Haywood seemed heir apparent, but after Murray's death last November the C.I.O. passed over aging Haywood, elected U.A.W. President Walter Reuther instead...
...bottom of the engineering ladder are the stress analysts. Except in rare cases, these men spend most of their time doing detailed calculations of the various forces that are imposed on the plane's components. College graduates with bachelor's degrees frequently start out in stress analysis; after a few year's experience here they move on to design groups...
...rung or so below the problem novel on fiction's ladder stands the predicament novel. This type of fiction might also be called soup opera, since the hero or heroine usually gets in the soup in the first chapter and doesn't get out till the last. Soup-opera books have a further important characteristic: after modest-sized editions in hard covers, they go quickly into huge editions in paperback-and become the reading of millions. The Birds and the Bees by James Aswell is a typical sample of the species...