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...Crimson will run into far stiffer competition, however, the next two days, April 5 and 6, when it meets perennially powerful North Carolina. The Carolinians handed Barnaby three of his four defeats in the 1953 season. Speaking about North Carolina's first five last year, the Crimson coach said, "Each could play number one on almost any other team...
...storm he has kicked up, Wurmeling still has the all-out backing of Chancellor Adenauer. He is pressing for stiffer divorce laws, better family housing ("Marriage flowers better in one's own home"), church-run marriage classes, "guidance offices" to patch up broken marriages. "They asked me whether I wanted a grown-up ministry," said Wurmeling last week. "I said no ... I like my shop small...
...Guam venture puts scarcely a strain on Engel's ingrained optimism, which met a far stiffer test in 1942 when, as an Army sergeant, he spent a weekend in Boston and was nearly burned to death in the Cocoanut Grove nightclub fire. He spent three years recovering in Army hospitals, underwent 45 operations, still wears a glove over a badly scarred hand. Engel typically found a silver lining: "You know, I must have been damn lucky. I had orders to ship out on the U.S.S. Dorchester, which got sunk with the loss of most of the men on board...
...intensive Management Development Program which puts qualified young men in first level supervisory positions after an initial five to six months training at company expense. Starting salaries at this level are $80 to $90 a week, or just about what the beginning engineer can make. Requirements, however, are much stiffer, as the competition is better. Optimum requirements set by Curtiss-Wright: "must be 21 to 27 years of age, married, a veteran, must have majored in Commerce, Business Administration, Industrial Management, Industrial Engineering, or the Liberal Arts." The inclusion of liberal arts is the admission by most companies that specific...
...freshmen promise to offer stiffer competition than the varsity. Pete Terry, a veteran running for the Terrier '57 squad, measures up favorably to most varsity runners. Still, with greater depth than B.U. and the services and Dave MacLane of Watertown, N.Y., and Billy Morris of Rochester, the Yardlings seem favored...