Word: seniors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Soldier. At the somber, grey-walled Hotel Matignon, official residence of France's Premiers, the Republican Guards now wear dress uniform (white gloves, red epaulets) every day, and treat visitors with a new formality. Senior government officials no longer wander in whenever they feel like an informal chat, nor do they ring up the Premier on a direct line. De Gaulle, who regards the telephone as an intolerable impediment to concentration, has had the only one in his office disconnected...
...piston-driven planes. American offered substantial wage increases, e.g., from $19,200 annually to $28,000 for eight-year pilots, but demanded that pilots continue to fly 85 hours a month, the maximum allowed by the old contract. ALPA asked a scale up to $27,500 for the same senior pilots, but wanted monthly flying time cut to 75 hours. Unable to resolve the differences, union and management broke off negotiations, and ALPA grounded pilots as each post-midnight flight ended. No pickets appeared. Said one pilot: "Why should we walk a picket line? Nobody's going...
Carleton students, like their peers across the U.S., are not visibly anguished by issues; said one senior: "If anything bothers the students it's that nothing really does bother them." Yet, says History Professor Catherine Boyd. "I've never had students who worked so hard. We have students who come to us as freshmen and are already working toward a Fulbright." Carleton has few distractions; Northfield is sleepily sedate, and the college bans cars, so socializing is mostly of the walk-and-talk kind. Even the occasional big stomp-and-holler has a cloistered flavor; last year Duke...
...Riverview Junior-Senior High School, a 24-classroom, $1,204,945, two-story building by Yale's Architecture Department Chairman Paul Rudolph, 40. Built round a central courtyard. Rudolph's school uses exposed steel and white brick, copious canopies for sunshade...
Although the grade on the essay will be an important part of the final grade in Junior tutorial, Hoffman stressed that admission to Senior Honors tutorial depends more on the candidate's general record in Government courses than on his specific grade in Government...