Word: ladders
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Consuelo, the elder daughter, is the only one of the four who attempts to rise on the social ladder. Like Manuel, she finished grade school, but she goes on for two years of commercial training. In all her jobs, however, her bosses try to seduce her; it is a coworker, Mario, to whom she gives herself, but she does not love him. Her efforts to raise herself to bourgeois respectability make her an outcast at home, while her attractiveness to hungry employers makes her feel unable to continue working...
...farther down on the ladder, Harvard is strong--probably stronger than Yale. In fact, coach Jack Barnaby expects the team to take four of the last five matches. Add to that a possible victory at number four, and the Crimson nips...
Williams has no outstanding players, but at least the top nine include no real clinkers. Indeed, the lower portion of the ladder is quite strong considering Williams' record thus far this year...
Roger Wiegand, John Vinton, Louie Williams, Jay Nelson, John Thorndike, and John Francis will complete the Crimson ladder for the match today...
From the balcony, loudspeakers blared out anti-Balaguer and anti-Rodriguez slogans as four light tanks drew up before the building. Soldiers climbed a ladder to cut off the loudspeakers. A car drove up, and Rafael Bonnelly, the mild-looking lawyer and U.C.N. leader who was scheduled to succeed Balaguer as President, stepped out to protest. "Without warning," says a witness, "gunners on top of the tanks opened fire point-blank at the people." Soldiers pointed their guns at Bonnelly and shouted to their commanding officer to "get out of the way so we can shoot!" Bonnelly's aides...