Word: rank
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...conventional and guerrilla warfare, the Chinese foot soldier is amply armed with Chinese-made automatic weapons-usually a stamped copy of the Russian World War II vent-barreled burp gun. He is supported by light and medium mortars, bazooka-style rocket launchers, recoilless rifles, and artillery that in performance ranks with the best in the world. As to armor and transport, Mao's millions are woefully underequipped. Some 4,000 Russian T-34 tanks are still operating, but though that machine was first-rank armor during the Korean War, it is now obsolete. Still, armor would be of little...
...winner in the dollar sweepstakes, by nearly $3 million. Cornell amassed some $27.7 million for third and Yale $22.5 million for fourth. The figures for fiscal year 1963-64, compiled by John Price Jones Company, Inc., New York firm of financial consultants, now that all eight Ivy League colleges rank among the nation's top twenty universities in private gifts. Dartmouth, the poorest, received $5.3 million in gifts. And Pennsylvania, the second poorest, received $9.6 million...
...modest collector, prints offer all the pleasure of owning an original at a bargain rate, and the artists have responded by turning out prints that rank among their most important work. Few men realized the brahminization of graphics faster than Jakob Rosenberg, now 71, former print curator of the Berlin State Museum and of Harvard's Fogg Museum, and now in semiretirement, teaching at Williams College. A steady scholar who can and has separated many a Rembrandt from a replica by its brush work, Rosenberg is called "the expert's expert" by Fogg Director John Coolidge. His students...
...Beatles are not only an institution but a business-and their profits are strictly fabmost. This week they joined the rank of the financial mighty when one of their firms was listed on the London Stock Exchange. The corporation: Northern Songs Ltd., sole publisher of the songs of Beatles John Lennon and Paul McCartney. Northern Songs offered 1,250,000 shares at an initial price of $1.08 each, and the scramble to pick them up was likely to reach Comsat proportions...
...Opera or the Comedie Francaise, a formal dinner or a private lunch at Colombey, his country estate. Viansson-Ponte also sets down De Gaulle's etiquette as Chief of State (liturgy), his ways of communicating with the public (sermon), and his relations with foreign dignitaries (kinship and rank...