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When students lash out against undergraduate professionalism, the readiest object of attack is the monolith of Harvard professionalism, the Harvard Student Agencies. HSA is the embodiment of the student business mentality in the College, and in its headlong rush up the ladder of success it has skipped enough rungs and stepped on enough toes to provide ammunition for the most clumsily mounted offensive...
...wealthy families of years past treated their household help with courtesy and respect, and frequently had more than one helper to do all the work now required of one. Many middle-class American women, whose husbands' careers have raised them a few rungs on the social ladder, can hardly wait to get someone to be a slave at home-at the lowest possible salary, of course. Such women often make unreasonable demands of servants, and totally lack the "one of the family" attitude that once knitted employer and employee together in mutual respect...
Sympathy Vote? But McCormack was implacable. Said he in his closing speech: "I worked my way up the political ladder. I'm not starting at the top. And I ask, since the question of names and families has been injected, if his name was Edward Moore-with his qualifications, with your qualifications, Teddy-if it was Edward Moore your candidacy would be a joke...
...years after World War II, ex-General Staff Major Egon Overbeclc, now 44, financed his studies at Frankfurt University by working for Metallgesellschaft, a widely diversified industrial combine. After earning a doctorate in business administration in 1952, Overbeck stayed on with the company, began to leapfrog up the executive ladder. His big break came in 1956 when he was named chief financial and administrative officer of one of Metallgesell-schaft's major subsidiaries. He was lured away from that post by rival Mannesmann, West Germany's second largest steelmaker (after Krupp), which was searching for a bright young...
Collecting the Ladder. As columns of flames shot through the trees on the Communist side, three of the West Berlin youths, toting two 8-ft. ladders and a pair of wire clippers, raced to the Wall. Placing a ladder against the barrier, one of the boys scrambled up, snipped the barbed wire on top of the concrete, and lowered the second ladder down the other side. Hardly had it hit the ground when the escapee sprang from his doorway 55 ft. away and clambered up and over the Wall two rungs at a time. So nonchalant were his rescuers that...