Word: rank
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...feel the Selective Service should require colleges and universities to compute rank-in-class as a basis for 2-S deferment? YES: 28 per cent...
Another Ivy League college, Dartmouth, has already condemned the use of rank-in-class, although it has continued to supply the ranks as long as local boards demand them...
...poll, students favored ending the use of rank-in-class, but also voted against using a lottery or having the test as the sole criterion for judging student deferments. Detailed results of the poll appear on page eight...
...this unlikely combination, Cronkite has constructed an on-screen personality that makes him the single most convincing and authoritative figure in TV news-no mean rank in a medium where competition is uncompromising, where the three nationwide networks scrutinize one another's shows and crib from one another's operations in a desperate drive for the top of the ratings. As a better-informed public has demanded more and more information about current events, TV news programs have changed from loss leaders and have begun to start paying their way. And as the networks have made the most...
Cronkite was not long in getting the beast under control. In 1952, CBS News Director Sig Mickelson picked him to anchor the network's coverage of the national political conventions, and he did such a workmanlike job that he found himself in the top rank of newscasters. Suddenly he was a star. He began to have his own news shows-Twentieth Century and Eyewitness to History...