Word: champions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Industrial Scientist Quarles (Western Electric, Bell Labs) succeeded the late Harold Talbott as Air Force Secretary, impressed Wilson and Washington by quietly, capably directing a crack Air Force. At Defense, Quarles succeeds Reuben Robertson Jr., who is leaving after two years to return to private industry (Champion Paper & Fibre...
Such salty, down-to-earth treatment of an esoteric surgical specialty could have come only from New Zealand-born Sir Harold Delf Gillies, 74, onetime champion golfer, master of the fly rod, amateur painter and undisputed father of modern plastic surgery in Britain. As co-author of The Principles and Art of Plastic Surgery (Little, Brown; $35), he enlisted the University of Miami's David Ralph Millard Jr., 37, a kindred spirit and former pupil. Utterly different from anything else in the field, their work is neither a set text nor a formal reference book, but a remarkable grafting...
...butterfly and 200-yd. individual medley. Splashing along, just off the pace, Michigan scored heavily in low-board diving and stayed within easy reach. Of the other threats, Indiana and Michigan State tarried behind in a tight scrap for third, and Ohio State, last year's champion, was out of it entirely. The Buckeye team was dry-docked by N.C.A.A. punishment for overenthusiastic football recruiting...
...better or worse now than I was then," insisted the happy champion. "But the car I drove today was fantastic. As TIME said last month, this is indeed the Year of the Maserati...
...slow-reacting items such as housing. More sensitive indexes charting the prices of wholesale goods, especially raw materials, already seemed to be tapering off or falling. And though consumers are still buying heavily, they are not so anxious to go into debt. Said Chase Manhattan Bank President George Champion: "The tendency to overextend consumer credit is beginning to right itself. Down payments have been stabilized, and maturities are no longer lengthening...