Word: rank
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...city's largely free universities are about to restrict their costly open admissions program, which admits every high school graduate. Now it is probable that students who have less than a C average or who rank in the lower third of their class will have to take a test to show that they have an eighth-grade level in reading and math...
Admissions is not an exact science and officials say they use recommendations, school reports and interviews to fill out the objective data of test scores, class rank and grades to make a flesh-and-blood picture of a candidate...
...That John Ehrlichman! That arrogant, thoughtless creature! I never could stand him, and now this...So what if Ehrlichman could pull "rank"--this wasn't the military. Let him come in and try, just...
...made 50 movies and his salary reached $3,500 a week, but Reagan never achieved first rank as an actor or star. "I became the Errol Flynn of the B's," he says. He also appeared in several A-quality productions, though never in a lead part. Some typical roles: admirer of a dying Bette Davis in Dark Victory (1939), suitor to Shirley Temple in That Hagan Girl (1947) and a scientist who played second banana to a chimpanzee in Bedtime for Bonzo (1951). Two roles won him acclaim: George Gipp, the doomed halfback of Knute Rockne, All American...
...Robert Welch. Riley told me that "Mr. Welch was reading Greek and Latin at age 6, knew algebra by 8, went to college at 12." Andrew Lane, a full-time employee who answers Society members' complaints and questions, called Welch "a brilliant man, an historian of the first rank. He read Ridpath's History of the world--that's nine volumes you know--by age 7." My tour guide, Frank Gotch, who had just come from Texas to work with Lane, made sure to call my attention to the floor-to-ceiling bookshelves which run the length of the second...