Word: rankings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Most Texans blame sheer envy for the fact that in recent years Texas has come to rank well ahead of mothers-in-law as a butt for U.S. humorists. Last week in the Dallas News wry Columnist Paul Crume offered another explanation: "Texas is the only thing left in the U.S. strong enough to stand being laughed...
...these boilings and eruptions on the surface of our political life should not mislead us about the views of the rank and file of both parties and of the general electorate on what should be done and how we should go about it. Although the feuding and the fighting have both their function and their useful consequences, they obscure, as often as they illuminate, the real character of the political alignment in the country at large. For insight into this political development, we must look to what the parties actually do -- the means and measures they support when vested with...
...report examines each level of appointment. It recommends that teaching fellows and instructors be studied separately, and expresses concern that the rank of assistant professor be "kept strong and important"--leading, in a high percentage of cases, to a permanent position...
...Well, I concede that things are pretty well stacked against me, apparently," said Estes modestly, "but I have been receiving an awful lot of requests from rankand-file people to enter. I will have to evaluate whether I have enough rank-and-file strength to offset the big bloc of political strength which has gotten behind Mr. Stevenson...
...problem of making a little go a long way, and lacking the businessman's padded expense accounts, the Committee on Compensation has shown much ingenuity in circumventing taxes and still distributing the money equitably. Most of its recommendations show its success in evaluating the needs of men at each rank and carefully balancing one against another. Its proposal for scholarships for faculty children, however, seems to favor married senior faculty members, at excessive cost both to the junior faculty and to all single members of the entire faculty. The estimated $100,000 to be used for the scholarship plan should...