Word: ladders
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fled the Missouri State Penitentiary in April 1967, hiding in a big wooden breadbox to get from the prison bakery to the outside world. He had twice before tried to escape, once placing a dummy in his bed and hiding in a ventilator shaft; once he broke a makeshift ladder trying to scale the wall...
...particularly in the North, Negro churches-like their white counterparts-have been suffering from a steady erosion of influence. One problem is that college-educated Negroes, as they gain in affluence, tend to abandon fundamentalist churches. Says Detroit N.A.A.C.P. Leader Robert Tindal, describing the Negro's Christian status ladder: "When you're poor, you're Baptist; when you advance slightly, you become a Methodist; when you arrive you're an Episcopalian." By comparison with King and other outspoken Southern pastors, the majority of Northern clergy have been much more passive in the struggle for equality...
...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...