Word: masterful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pilot Rawlings early began to show a unique talent in the management skills that the Air Corps needed more than pilot's deeds. In 1939, after a tour in the administrative branch in Materiel, he took a master's degree (cum laude) at Harvard's Graduate School of Business Administration, worked on Air Force logistics in World War II, later set up the division responsible for postwar production cutbacks and contract terminations. By 1946 he was the Air Force's first comptroller; he took command of the Air Materiel Command...
...learned of Khrushchev's speech, relations between the two Premiers became a contest in coldness. In such a contest, Harold Macmillan, who prides himself on his "unflappability," was at no disadvantage. At a British embassy reception the night after Khrushchev's speech, while Mikoyan was praising his master for the stir he had created, Macmillan publicly remarked: "This is an extraordinary method of diplomacy." At luncheon next day Macmillan addressed only two stiffly formal remarks to Khrushchev. At the Bolshoi Ballet the two men sat side by side without speaking throughout an entire performance of Prokofiev...
Franklin L. Ford, Allston Burr Senior Tutor of Lowell House, will take a leave of absence until June 1, Elliott Perkins '23, Master of Lowell House, announced yesterday. Ford has been appointed chairman of a CEP subcommittee which will review College admissions policy...
...Harvard-Radcliffe joint education activities in the Houses are really nothing new at Harvard," Delmar Leighton '19, Master of Dudley House, said yesterday in reference to recent "mergers" between Harvard Houses and Radcliffe dormitories...
...above par. The finest works on the program were the corner ones: Bach's Prelude and Fugue in B-minor, BWV 544, and Piston's Prelude and Allegro for Organ and Strings. The Bach was especially welcome, for it is not often heard these days; it is a lofty master-piece built on unpromising material--one more proof that, in art, manner is more important than matter. Professor Piston's piece, idiomatically written and solidly crafted, still stands up admirably after fifteen years...