Word: leapfrogging
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...Germany's lean years after World War II, ex-General Staff Major Egon Overbeclc, now 44, financed his studies at Frankfurt University by working for Metallgesellschaft, a widely diversified industrial combine. After earning a doctorate in business administration in 1952, Overbeck stayed on with the company, began to leapfrog up the executive ladder. His big break came in 1956 when he was named chief financial and administrative officer of one of Metallgesell-schaft's major subsidiaries. He was lured away from that post by rival Mannesmann, West Germany's second largest steelmaker (after Krupp), which was searching...
...work within the Administration, which one will determine the governments' space policy is not yet clear. The selective strengthening of the space program will not lead to the demise of non-spectacular, non-military scientific research projects if the selection is done wisely. Efforts must be made to leapfrog the Soviets in big boosters, by working on "far-out" ideas. A clear choice must be made between the Rover, Nova and Saturn booster projects, and that choice must be pushed hard, with work done on more than a 40-hour-a-week basis. Adequate deterrent power is an necessity...
...operation. The Frente representative was removed when he tried to exert some authority, and the Batista followers in the camps moved toward the leadership, working with a militant young opportunist named Manuel Artime, 28, onetime Catholic student leader at Havana University and a Frente subchief who schemed to leapfrog into supreme power. When one Frente man mentioned the Batista recruits to a U.S. colonel, the colonel dismissed the matter with "they're antiCommunists, aren't they...
...time the gang reached Victoria, they apparently had decided not to press their leapfrog luck too far. Leaving a fortune behind, they took only $28,000 worth of jewelry, and for the fourth and last time locked their doors behind them. Their record take: goods worth $700,000, chosen so judiciously for size and value that the whole caboodle would fit in a suitcase...
...enough to increase classes in the social sciences by ten minutes each. But like Annapolis, West Point will continue to emphasize science (62% of the nonmilitary curriculum). This year West Point will boost studies in nuclear physics, electronics, the effects of radiation. Plebes who are tops in mathematics will leapfrog into advanced subjects, e.g., vector analysis...