Word: 48th
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Before the 48th annual convention of the Investment Bankers Association of America last week in Bal Harbour, Fla., outgoing President William D. Kerr posed a challenge: "I visualize a titanic struggle between the forces that would foster and perpetuate our local governments and our right to the well-known freedoms and those who would turn these United States into a huge federal omnibus in which the individual would be reduced to being a number in a file...
...holiday season, and we at TIME take special pride in it. This jolly Christmas tree shining 630 feet above Manhattan's streets is our version of an old-world tradition, the "topping out" of a new house with a broom or small tree. When steelworkers reached the top (48th) floor of the new TIME & LIFE Building ahead of schedule a few weeks ago, we celebrated their well-done job and saluted the season at the same time...
...Double Webs, Author Jean Overton Fuller charges that S.O.E. was totally fooled by a French-born double agent code-named "Gilbert," who was better known to the Germans as agent "BOE 48" (the 48th agent of Karl Boemelburg, a Gestapo chief in Paris). It is Author Fuller's contention that Gilbert, as Air Movements Officer of S.O.E., passed pertinent documents to the Gestapo headquarters before sending them by courier to London. In return, Gilbert obtained a German promise never to shoot down or capture any aircraft landing at fields he controlled. Gilbert was later brought to London "under suspicion...
...conflicting desires of the U.S. and Canada. Last year Armstrong took a pay cut of almost 50% to go home to Utah and a $14,000-a-year job as director of the state's Road Commission. Utah was lucky to get him. Armstrong lifted Utah from 48th to 34th among states in getting its share of federal highway work under way, increased the amount of contracts let by Utah almost fivefold. Of his new $17,000-a-year federal assignment, Armstrong says: "This is a job of coordination and cooperation on a gigantic scale...
...huge Public Auditorium, vegetarian restaurants were serving the kind of meals preferred by strict Seventh-day Adventists. In the gallery two church workers patiently used sign language to translate the proceedings on the floor for deaf-mute visitors. No detail was left to chance by the Adventists' 48th quadrennial World Conference, a smoothly run, ten-day meeting of more than 1,000 delegates from 90 countries, including such Red nations as Poland and Yugoslavia. During services on Saturday -the Adventist Sabbath-20,000 visitors came to pray or watch...