Word: meritable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last week, 16 years after the Solomons, Don Felt got another big moment in the Pacific. In the years between, he had won the Legion of Merit commanding the light carrier Chenango off Okinawa (1945), worked up through the postwar Pentagon and carrier commands to boss the Mediterranean Sixth Fleet (1956), pinned on his fourth star as Admiral Arleigh Burke's Vice Chief of Naval Operations (1956-58). Last week he was named Commander in Chief, Pacific, with 500,000 men, 400 ships, 2,500 planes, to do the job of deploying U.S. power and backstopping U.S. diplomacy from...
...true democracies, the French Republic is, on the one hand, the one that is assailed by the most redoubtable problems and, on the other hand, the one whose governmental institutions are the most fragile . . . Whatever may have been the merit and the patriotism of the men who have succeeded each other in power, the state has continued to disintegrate...
Tanks to Its Moon. Though the party is supreme in Russia, a surprising degree of independence is allowed the academy in scientific matters. With notably few exceptions-mostly in nonscientific fields -the academy elects its members on the basis of merit. It not only directs the policies of the twelve "sister academies" of the various republics, it runs at least 126 research institutes, and to a large extent governs the work of more than 200,000 scientists and technicians. Its institutes probe into everything from weather control and ionospheric explorations above the Antarctic icecap to elaborate schemes for landing electronic...
After two weeks and fifty hours of music, Conductors Steinberg and Pritchard agreed on three "equal merit" awards, signifying that no single winner stood out sharply above the others. The winners: India's Zubin Mehta, 22; Detroit-born Haig Yaghjian (pronounced Yog-jun), 33, founder of the semiprofessional Fresno (Calif.) orchestra; Norway's Sverre Bruland, 35. Conductor Steinberg, 58, was disappointed, but not particularly surprised that the contest did not turn up the "fair-haired wonder boy we were looking for." Said he: "Conducting is, in its best sense, conveying experience. How can young men convey experience...
...aded California school buildings by San Francisco's Mario J. Ciampi; a highly patterned tile-and-glass-façaded Palm Springs specialty shop by Los Angeles Architects William Pereira and Charles Luckman. In addition, Pereira & Luckman lengthened their list of honors with an Award of Merit for Beckman Instruments' Helipot Division plant at Newport Beach, Calif., and Ed Stone picked up a similar award for his U.S. Pavilion in Brussels. Winner of the A.I.A. Gold Medal, reserved as an accolade for a lifetime's accomplishment: a leading Chicago architect and modern pioneer, John Wellborn Root...