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...temperature was three degrees above average last week, the Blue Hill Observatory announced last night. This followed the pattern set during the past three months, when the weather was unusually warm in comparison with past falls...
...heel, he has at least been a target for satire. In Marquand's Point of No Return, the satire was gentle, in The Hucksters sharp. In many other "realistic" novels, the businessman was actually a caricature. On sale last week was a book that broke the tired old pattern. In Executive Suite (Houghton Mifflin: $3), Cameron Hawley has depicted businessmen who are neither heroes nor heels nor geniuses but, in the words of one of the characters, "a quite ordinary group of men, disconcertingly human . . . and . . . given to the man-on-the-street practice of basing decisions on hunch...
Concludes Editor Rogers: "To one who recalls the long feminist battle over the right of a woman to 'lead her own life,' it is remarkable to find such an intelligent and lively group . . . embracing so nearly unanimously a modern version of the pre-feminist pattern...
Actually, it is necessary to go a little deeper to find the real problem of the young students at New Haven. The Ford Scholars are unable to fit into Yale's social success pattern. To be "accepted" Elis must excel in something, anything. But they must be a key member on an athletic team, a publication, or a fraternity. If is here that the Ford Scholars fall down, and it is here where the entire program is jeopardized...
...after day, the pattern of battle repeated itself like a recurrent nightmare. Again & again, the Chinese Reds attacked Sniper Ridge, sometimes forced the South Koreans to give ground, but always in the end were bloodily repulsed. Again & again, the ROKs assaulted Triangle Hill; sometimes they got within 10 yards of the top, but always they were thrown back...