Word: junior
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...outstanding performance as Lin's successor in Korea, hard-boiled Peng Teh-huai's rigid sense of discipline long ago got him into trouble with the commissars, notably China's No. 2 man, Liu Shao-chi, who raked him over the coals for reducing his junior officers to "ineffective yes men." Best guess as to the reason for Peng's ouster last week is that he has been too vocal in his resentment of Peking's decision late last year to put his army to work building dams, raising pigs and harvesting crops...
...Communism could be slain by the jaw bone of an ass, in the junior Senator from Connecticut America would have a weapon more insidiously lethal than any atomic blast...
...well known (and trusted) long before he became U.S. High Commissioner and Ambassador to West Germany (1953-57). Among plain citizens he has won towering respect since The American High School Today (McGraw-Hill; $1) was published early this year. This fall Conant embarks on a second study: the junior high school. Nobody has already done more to convince Americans that high schools can improve-"with no radical change...
...sixth graders are being lumped together in a "multigrade" school so that children of different ages can stimulate each other. In East Alton, III., small groups of six to ten move at their own pace; children who reach seventh grade ahead of time take "enrichment" courses.¶The junior high school, a stepchild institution, will get a year-long survey by Conant. His goal: strengthening the link between fermenting elementary schools and high schools. Junior high schools began originally as a euphemistic device for those who did not want to go to high school but needed a touch...
...Louis C. Lustenberger, 54, moved up from executive vice president to president of W. T. Grant Co.. second biggest U.S. junior department-store chain (after J. C. Penney), succeeding Edward Staley, 55, who became vice chairman and chief executive officer. Pittsburgh-born Louis Lustenberger joined Grant in the standards department in 1929, three years out of Carnegie Institute of Technology. In Depression '32 he moved to Montgomery Ward, rose quickly to general personnel manager and vice president. In 1940 Founder W. T. Grant hired him back as an assistant to the president. Since the war, he and Staley...