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...Crimson is returning seven starters from an undefeated varsity squad that dropped only four points all season. The Crimson has such depth and talent this winter that last year's number ten and the Yardling's top returner will have to battle to make the starting ladder. Even restrained Crimson coach Jack Barnaby is echoing the perennial opinions of opposition coaches: "Harvard is the team to beat this year, until proven otherwise...
...Crimson was supposed to be especially weak at the top of the ladder last year, but junior Dave Fish and sophomore Peter Briggs surprised the opposition and dropped only one match between them as they alternated at the first and second slots. This winter, Fish and Briggs will rate as favorites in all their matches, except perhaps against the two top players in last year's intercollegiate singles championship, Penn's Palmer Page and Williams' Ty Griffin...
...they figure that they might as well help us along. Still, it's a struggle." Adds Shirley Barnes Kulunda, an account executive with Manhattan's J. Walter Thompson ad agency: "When white businessmen look at us, they still see a female, and how far up the ladder can a female go? That's the thing that is scary. Women cannot get beyond the middle-management level...
Phillips was ambitious to climb the corruption ladder-almost a parallel career within the department. After once booking a man who had got into a fight, Phillips said that another cop asked him to forget the whole thing for $300. Phillips obliged. When he was promoted to plainclothesman, after three years on the force, he was given a $1,000 payoff on his first day on the job. His partners gave him some fatherly advice: "You're new here and it would look good for you if you gave the boss a piece of the action." So Phillips handed...
...steady stream of immigrants who came to take the place of those Underemployed who moved up the economic ladder, however, would have very real opportunities for advancement. Therefore, tearing down some Underemployed Housing and encouraging New Enterprise construction, Forrester believes, would prove the soundest and most beneficial program for the Underemployed...