Word: superior
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...West Germany, news of the story came as an embarrassment to Rajakowitsch's wartime superior in The Netherlands, SS Brigadier General Wilhelm Harster. Harster had served eight years as a war criminal in Holland after the war, apparently no hindrance to his employment by the Bavarian Interior Ministry as a legal consultant. Last week Harster was dismissed from his post in Munich-with a pension, of course...
Powers, according to one source quoted by Raskin, was "so superior to anyone he had to negotiate against that it was like matching Sonny Listen with a Golden Gloves champion." but he was also "cold, ambitious" and unpredictable. Raskin pulled no punches with his own front office: "One top-level mediator said Mr. Bradford brought an attitude of such icy disdain into the conference room that the mediator often felt he ought to ask the hotel to send up more heat." The publishers' attitude, Raskin quoted one observer as complaining, was always "Give 'em nothing...
...Leadership Lab is to create an authoritarian environment corresponding to that in which the typical Air Force officer finds himself. The combined experience of drill and staff work is intended to produce an officer who as a subordinate will follow orders promptly and efficiently and who as a superior will issue them with proper forethought, timing and clan...
With the wealth of material, the competition for seats is as stiff as it is in the heavyweights. But Cabot seems to have solved last year's greatest problem--finding a first boat combination obviously superior to any other. Though by no means the final word, the present first boat is as follows: Hutchinson, bow; senior Norman Weiss, two; McClennen, three; Straus, four; Captain Russell, five; MacMahon, six; McKenzie, seven; Masland, stroke; and Hamilton...
Reluctant. Some of those military officers whom McNamara had branded as ignorant began turning up before McClellan's subcommittee-and got in some licks of their own. Rear Admiral Frederick Ashworth, the top Navy TFX evaluator, declared: "My personal opinion is that the Boeing airplane is a superior airplane to meet the Navy requirements in a superior fashion." Air Force Colonel John Gregory, co-chairman of a military evaluation team that found the Boeing design superior in some respects, testified that he was called by a Defense Department civilian, was told that "they had prepared some documents that were...