Word: rank
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Among the Big Three, Harvard is only second in the number of students on The List. Yale has 171, Harvard, 123, and Princeton, 76. Pennsylvania is next with 44, followed by Trinity, Middlebury, and Virginia. The other Ivy Schools rank low on the column with an average of eight students on the Register...
...stud fees (up to $200 a service) of his four-legged friends. Alabama's Clyde Morton, at 65 the dean of U.S. breeders, has won eleven National Bird Dog championships, sells dogs to such fanciers as former Treasury Secretary George Humphrey and British Cine-mogul J. Arthur Rank, once turned down an offer of $8,000 for Palamonium, a liver-and-white pointer that won the 1956 and 1959 Nationals...
Then came unmistakable signs of apathy among the Democratic rank and file. Two weeks ago, the party nominee, Lieutenant Governor Paul Johnson, appeared on statewide television to whoop it up before Democrats who were supposed to gather in large numbers at the state's 82 county courthouses. But few turned up, and many of them wandered away in the middle of Johnson's speech...
...resigned recently because so many party officials were working openly for Goldwater. Ohio's Rhodes is leery of Goldwater, fears Barry would totally lose the state's Negro vote and might revive the explosive right-to-work issue. But Ohio observers agree that the party's rank and file is strongly for Goldwater and Rhodes may have trouble holding the delegation in line. Similarly, Michigan Republicans are getting restive about Romney's prospects, would jump to Goldwater in an instant if Romney were to release them...
...business day. The season's dinner parties are invariably dimpled with a dizzying variety of ambassadors, Cabinet members, agency heads, socialites, Pentagonians, and sometimes the President himself. And a major problem to the Washington hostess is the proper seating of her guests by the order of their rank. This is called precedence, or among the truly ingroup, precedence...