Word: ranke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...classes, the upper-half dividing line fell somewhere in Group IV. Seniors, to be in the upper half, had to be in the top one-third of the Group; juniors, top two-thirds; sophomores, top four-fifths, and freshmen, top five-sixths. Rank within a group is determined on the basis of plus and minus grades...
...down on rank lists in the College at the mid-year is as follows: Group I, 2.2 percent; II, 10; III, 20.1; IV, 25.7; V, 21.9; VI, 4.6; Unsatisfactory, 12.2; Incomplete, 1.9, and Withdrawals...
Since he took office last September, 41-year-old Secretary of Defense Ramon Magsaysay has realized that pacifying Luzon's 15,000 Communist Huk rebels is more than a military problem. The Huk rank & file-and most Huk sympathizers-are poor, landless peasants, led into rebellion by Communist promises of Utopia. Magsaysay has come to believe that a little government help and a few acres of land would transform Huk guerrillas into peaceful citizens...
...when he last tried, he produced four of the neatest suspense stories of the decade: Background to Danger, Cause for Alarm, A Coffin for Dimitrios, Journey into Fear. What with the war (he wound up a lieutenant colonel), and scripting and producing postwar movies for J. Arthur Rank, Englishman Ambler has been pretty busy since those days. But he has managed to write another Balkan thriller, a fact for which Ambler fans can duly rejoice...
Prof. Harlow Shapley (astronomy) calls for creation of a Department of Peace and Human Welfare, headed by a Secretary of Cabinet rank. "Congress should back this department with a budget approaching 10 per cent of what we are currently spending on the various machineries of war. The department would of course include a number of bureaus that already exist, but its large new adventure might be in the field of the international development of the world's human and material resources to the end of decreasing the miseries and irritations that lead to the wars that threaten our civilization...