Word: ranking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Navy duty. Bad eyesight, the result of a boyhood rock fight, kept him out of shooting war. In wartime Washington, he originated the morale-building idea of awarding an "E" (for Excellence) pennant to outstanding war plants, helped set up the Office of Naval Research, wound up with the rank of rear admiral and the top medals a chairborne warrior could win: Distinguished Service Medal, Legion of Merit...
...through with one. Cadet Bradley C. Hosmer, first man of the first class. But Annapolis and the Coast Guard Academy got no Rhodes scholarships at all; it became clear years ago that a new ensign who accepts a Rhodes forfeits time at sea and mysteriously never catches up in rank with his class...
...Rank and File marked another reversal: Playwright Serling's departure from live TV drama. At 34 the author of more than 100 TV plays, he has been one of the most voluble defenders of the serious playwright's place in TV. But disillusioned Writer Serling announced last week that next season his world belongs to the series, has signed on to write a weekly half-hour science-fiction show called The Twilight Zone...
...output. Whereas rival U.S. manufacturers deride Japanese transistors as "cheap and dirty" (i.e., adequate for consumer equipment but not precise enough for high-grade military or industrial use), U.S. engineers rank good Japanese transistors on a par with good U.S. transistors-and they are considerably cheaper...
...definitions, Packard rarely gets much more precise than to say that the Diploma Elite consists of "the big, active, successful people who pretty much run things" ). This structure, asserts Packard, is becoming increasingly rigid: within it. people are continually straining "to surround themselves with visible evidence of the superior rank they are claiming...