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Sample question: "You are helping to load a sanitation truck at night. A passing pedestrian asks you the location of a street address. You do not know the answer. . . . Of the following, the best procedure is to tell the pedestrian a) that you are a sanitation man and not a traffic cop, b) not to interfere with a city employee in the performance of his duties, c) to ask another man in the crew because you are busy, d) that you do not know and refer him to a nearby traffic officer, e) to look it up in the telephone...
...port of Constantsa last month, a tough gang of greasy longshoremen looked expectantly out to sea. Over five months had elapsed since Joseph Stalin agreed to send Russian oil to help Adolf Hitler win his war, and just about to come snailing into Constantsa at last was the first load of Soviet crude for the Nazis...
...last time this spring, two more in June, 1941. This year these men are giving eight half-course, and carry a large portion of the tutorial work in English, Slavic, and Comparative Literature. Undergraduate were rightly worried about who would teach these courses and carry this tutorial load when these four men had gone...
...others') to West Coast ports, where U. S. ships meet them for transshipment. Chief transshipment point: Manzanillo, a small (pop. 3,669), unhealthy Mexican harbor, unnaturally busy, playing host to an unusual number of barnacled Soviet hulks. Kim, having deposited its gold, headed for Manzanillo and a return load last week...
...minutes. He is equally hard-pressed to keep the book's romantic inspirations from seeming merely grotesque when viewed by the literal lens of a camera. A tame ostrich (apocryphally discovered dwelling in a South Sea jungle) taught to haul timber, a stuffed turtle towing a raft-load of gleeful Robinsons will divert children. For older boys there is always Mother Robinson (Edna Best) cavorting around in a pair of buckskin slacks...