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...rules of the Faculty. This drab but necessary work is administered with an easy kind of efficiency that quickly wins the affection of his all-women staff. Although by the nature of his position, he must dispense red tape, but he is no admirer of it: one of his proudest achievements has been simplifying the form-filling procedure students must go through to register...
...Peter Carl Fabergé (1846-1920). Starting out in his father's small shop in St. Petersburg as a young apprentice, Fabergé became court jeweler to Alexander III and Nicholas II, and the most sought after goldsmith of his time. Russia's Easter eggs are his proudest creation. Fabergé turned out his first as a surprise for Alexander III's Czarina. At a glance, it seemed to be a plain chicken egg of opaque white enamel. But inside, the Czarina found a glittering yolk of gold, and within the yolk a gold chicken. The chicken...
That afternoon, the Sabre jet pilots shot down six Red MIGs. But the one they were proudest of was Baker's: it was the twelfth MIG he had destroyed and made him the leading jet-to-jet ace of the Korean war. Previous record holder: another Texan, Major George A. Davis of Lubbock, who destroyed eleven MIGs in ten weeks, then was shot down himself (TIME, Feb. 18, 1952). Said Baker: "I just lucked out on him." The Air Force, just to make sure that luck doesn't finally run out on its new ace of aces, ordered...
Canada's proudest achievement is the fact that its recent development has been carried out on a strict pay-as-you-go basis, a business method that has gone out of fashion in most other parts of the world. During 1952, Canada floated no foreign loans, relied entirely on outside risk capital (mostly from the U.S.) and on the savings of its own people to finance all its new ventures. As it has for the past six years, the national budget is heading for a surplus; the treasury was $292 million to the good as the old year...
Claret & Crystal. War's end brought Templer full generalship, knighthood, and elevation to the Imperial General Staff. But his proudest preferment is his colonelcy of the Royal Irish Fusiliers...