Word: sevens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Eighteen-year-old Denise Chambon was one victim of the annual bac (baccalaureate exam) and trac (student term for butterflies in the stomach) that thousands of French youths (and anxious parents) suffer through each fall. Looming at the end of seven years of intensive secondary schooling, the bac orals are the big hurdle for French schoolgirls and boys. To the 65% who pass, success means a bachot certificate and eligibility for entrance to a university or employment in many civil service and professional jobs effectively closed to non-baccalaureates...
...cooperative like the Associated Press, the L.P.A. elected Rubin Levin of the Railway Brotherhoods' weekly Labor as president, and hired Irving Fagan as editor and general manager. Wiry, able Irv Fagan, a 20-year veteran of the newspaper business (the Philadelphia Record), heads a Washington staff of seven, a national staff of 15 part-time correspondents. The L.P.A.'s top byliner: Old Washington Hand Nathan Robertson (PM). Cost of the service: $2 to $15 a week...
Ethridge, who has seven Harvard Nieman Fellows on his staff, decided to try a Louisville version of the Nieman Fellowships. Under the plan, Reporter Amster will study three days a week at the University of Louisville, work at the Times three more. The newspaper will pay her salary, provide tuition and books. The university will give Betty Lou private instruction on her hand-picked interests (municipal government, anthropology, taxation, labor relations, the Soviet Union...
...seven years as a sportwriter on the New York Journal-American, Hearstling Jeane Hoffman has covered everything from a frog-jumping contest to the World Series and the Belmont Stakes. ("I'm so tall," she says, "I have to interview jockeys sitting down.") In between, hard-boiled Reporter Hoffman found time to toss off some sport features for the Gazette. In naming her executive editor, Publisher Harold H. Roswell gave her orders to try to recapture the Gazette's bygone glories as the "sportsmen's bible...
...proper Bostonians withstood the shock well. So did Lever's astounded office workers. Much less pleased were the seven Manhattan advertising agencies who will soon have one of their most important clients camping right on their doorstep. Said Chuck Luckman with his best Pepsodent smile: "We're going to drive them like hell...