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...pistol. She and her husband put new locks on their windows and set up lights around the yard. When alone, she slept with all the lights in the apartment turned on. A few weeks after the attack, she returned from a brief vacation to find a makeshift ladder at one of their apartment windows and the screens ripped. But the prowler, whom Mrs. Walker assumes was the rapist bent on another attack, was heard by a friend of the Walkers' and fled as police arrived...
...size an advantage..." Representing an enterprise with 180,000 employees, whose $4.3-billion profits in 1979 represented more than the profits of DuPont, Sears, Proctor & Gamble, Xerox, and RCA combined, McCreery fights an uphill battle in convincing students they will be more than just a rung on the corporate ladder. But, he says, "Once you give people the idea that an industrial career can be tailor-made to their interests and capabilities you've basically done...
...once for each day of captivity. "At about 200 pulls, I thought I'd never make it," she gasped. "Then at about 300 pulls, I got my second wind and kept going all the way." Massachusetts House Speaker Thomas W. McGee, 56, was too impatient to wait for a ladder, so he shinnied ten feet up a pole to reach the halyard and hoist the U.S. flag over the statehouse in Boston. In Mountain Home, Idaho, some 200 townspeople staged an impromptu parade, driving their cars three abreast, headlights on and horns blaring. Patrolman Joseph McDermott coasted his cruiser...
...wall and write into your resume, there's little that will get in your way. Many of them entered Harvard knowing exactly what they had to do; took their required pre-med courses, learned computer skills and filled out the applications that they needed to keep climbing up the ladder. And for too many of them the question has become--and may always be--"What should I do?" and not "What...
...conventions of 1960s protests. In that era, and as recently as the 1978 candlelight march protesting Harvard's South Africa-related investments, demonstrations sprang from a current of altruism. Today, as students devote ever more energy and time to the pursuit of their own advancement up the professional ladder of their choice, the weak sparks of protest spring instead from self-interest...