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...Germany's Communists tut-tutted at West Germany for buying its airliners abroad, and Neues Deutschland boasted that the BB-152 - a stubby four-engine turbojet designed to travel 500 m.p.h. and land safely on only 3,300 ft. of runway-would put the East Germans "into the forefront of international commercial aviation...
...empty. The biggest maker of coin-handling devices is National Rejectors, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Universal Match Corp., which is controlled by Frank J. Prince. When Prince took over in 1951, sales were $10.3 million. By acquiring vending companies, Prince brought Universal Match to the forefront of the industry with sales of $72 million, earnings of $3.01 per share...
...older women, and you've got almost certain trouble. Except that with Pat it didn't work out that way. All the older teachers loved her. I think one of the reasons for that was that she arranged it so that they would always be in the forefront of faculty and P.T.A. functions, and things like that. When they were out in front of the audience, Pat would be serving the coffee or out in the kitchen doing the dishes." Predictably, Pat was soon in a kaleidoscope of extracurricular and above-duty activities. Whenever the children of migratory...
Tubes for Speed. An unassuming man in most other ways, Kricke has pushed to the forefront of modern German sculpture. At 37, he gets up to $25,000 each for his constructions, but still lives the life of a poor art student. Kricke occupies a spectacularly shabby studio in a kind of artists' barracks in Duesseldorf, sleeping on the balcony with his wife. Their daughter, 11, has a small room to herself down the hall. The studio proper is littered with contorted steel tubes, cutting, bending and welding equipment, and an acetylene torch with its hoses and tanks...
...wore his heart on his sleeve. He breezed lightly over California's Governor Edmund ("Pat") Brown ("a man to be reckoned with''), New Jersey's Governor Bob Meyner ("in the spotlight of public interest"), and Michigan's Governor G. Mennen ("Soapy") Williams ("in the forefront of enlightened social legislation"). Minnesota's Senator Hubert Humphrey was "one of the forward-looking thinkers in our ranks"; Adlai Stevenson, chairman of the evening, was "an important and gifted voice in the affairs of the party and the nation"; Massachusetts' Senator Jack Kennedy was "a liberal...