Word: brightest
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...family's 100-company empire and spread the business into 40 countries on six continents. Last week, as the last of their major companies reported for 1964, the Kaisers toted up profits of $46 million on sales of $1.3 billion. For their major manufacturing arms, it was the brightest year since Henry J. started making steel, building ships and breaking production records...
Harvard's placement directors have noted another phenomenon: the brightest students avoid business. Those at the top of last year's class preferred research or teaching, and most of the men who planned commercial careers stood below the middle of the class...
...Braniff, for example, is a leader in the fight against in-flight entertainment. Last week the line decided to change its course. Invading the Los Angeles executive suite of rival Continental Airlines, it picked a new boss who has won a reputation as one of the industry's brightest young men. Braniff's new president: Harding Luther Lawrence, 44, Continental's executive vice president, who will succeed retiring President Charles E. Beard...
...Brightest prospect on the team is Andy Kopecki who is wrestling at 123. With a natural weight of 117, he is outweighed in every match. Next year, however, the Ivies are adding a 115-pound weight class and Kopecki is heir apparent...
...years, the Order of the Coif* has awarded coveted gold Coif Keys to some of the country's brightest law students. Last week the legal fraternity began honoring another kind of excellence: legal writing. The need is clear. At its jargon-free best, legal literature inspires the court decisions that shape U.S. society. Yet legal writers usually toil obscurely for arcane law reviews. Even when they publish books, their reward is likely to be petty cash and a paucity of public praise...