Word: ranking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...artistic and highly profitable efforts to popularize the hip-rolling ethnic dances of the Caribbean, Haiti awarded Negro Dancer Katherine Dunham the Order of Honor and Merit with the rank of commander. Adding to the general joy, the mayor of Port-au-Prince made Dancer Dunham an honorary citizen...
...Philadelphia Republican leaders sounded out a local lawyer. Would he? Answered bald, ever-boyish Harold Stassen, 51, Governor of Minnesota (1939-43), sometime (1955-58) presidential assistant on disarmament, soundly defeated candidate last spring for the Republican gubernatorial nomination: a tentative yes-if the bosses can rout up enough rank-and-file support...
...Constantinople, 268th Ecumenical Patriarch of the Eastern Orthodox Church. Athenagoras' enemies call him a "religio-politician," while his friends point to the unique problems of a job in which his predecessor went mad. The Patriarch of Constantinople has only the power of persuasion among three others of equal rank, ruling the patriarchates of Alexandria, Antioch and Jerusalem. For "Elder Brother" Patriarch Athenagoras, 72, adroit politics is the main healing art in a strife-torn church that includes some 250 million souls...
Harvard, however, failed to rank among the top three universities and colleges in per cent of alumni making gifts...
With energy, enterprise, and a knack for learning fast, Kappel conquered 14 jobs to reach the rank of vice president of Northwestern Bell in 1942. Then came a call to New York, where his mettle was tested in a variety of jobs in operating and engineering. He did so well that in 1954 he got the second biggest job in the Bell System: president of Western Electric. In 1956, to no one's surprise, he was tapped for A. T. & T.'s top job to succeed Cleo Craig...