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...made by that exclusive club's sole newcomer and only conglomerate, ITT, which scored a 34.6% sales increase, boosting it into ninth place, ahead of Gulf Oil. U.S. Steel, a member of the club since the list was first published in 1955, dropped to twelfth spot this year, behind Western Electric. In all, 115 industrial firms had sales of more than $1 billion, and a company had to ring up $162 million to qualify for listing...
...episodes were filmed by a movie camera in a twelfth-floor window above the street. What the camera did not record, though, were the remarks of pedestrians buffeted by the psychologists: "Whatsa madda? Ya blind? Whyn't ya look where ya goin'? Ya crazy or sump'n?" The way Wolff sees it, such comments indicate that New Yorkers, though inured to many other inconveniences, are not tolerant of sidewalk bumping; they expect some degree of cooperation from other pedestrians in order to avert collisions...
...frustration is the failure to secure a "vocation" in the Church of Rome, to which he converted "overnight" at the age of 26. Not even a lowly "clerk" let alone a prelate, this blustery paranoid and repressed homosexual aspires to be the first English Pontiff since Breakspear in the twelfth century...
...school is "integrated" much like those in about 100 other rural districts in Georgia. Under a 1967 freedom-of-choice plan, the modern all-black Walker High School had to send all its eleventh and twelfth graders to the all-white Ludowici High School, where 65 blacks and 621 whites are now enrolled. Blacks can also enter Ludowici's ninth and tenth grades-but dare not to. Conversely, whites can enter those grades at Walker-but refuse to. Result: Walker has lost two grades and remained all black...
...Friday, Steve' Krause, John Munk, and the freestyle relay team earned most of the Crimson's points. Breaststrokers Pete Mikhalevsky and Steve Baumgart earned the eleventh and twelfth spots at 200 yards, Mike Cahalan was tenth in the 100-free, and Dave Silver finished ninth in the three-meter diving to give Harvard additional points. Dan Kobick was eleventh in the 200-back...