Word: superior
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Silliman's victory was superior conditioning. The Yale champions used a fast break offense to wear down the already tired Eliot squad, which had played two tough games earlier in the week in its successful drive for the Harvard championship...
...newsman first and a colonel second, Moranda objected. He called his superior officer, Major General Francis Pachler, U.S. Army Chief of Staff in Europe, to argue that the McGhee item was news that should not be suppressed. Pachler disagreed, told him to kill the story. Moranda replied that he would do so only on direct orders. The orders were given, and Moranda called Stars and Stripes-but it was too late. The first two editions had already come out with the story; it was suppressed only in the last two. Not that anyone in Germany would have had the slightest...
...justice. The Supreme Court's famous Mallory rule commands federal police to bring suspects promptly before U.S. commissioners. In Mapp (1961), Escobedo (1964) and Miranda (1966), the court in effect ordered all American police to maintain certain standards on pain of losing their evidence. Last week Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Alfred Gittelson ordered all local police and prosecutors to obey an A.B.A.-style code of pretrial silence. He simply called them "ministers of justice...
...self-styled professional organization whose 987,000 members include administrators as well as teachers. Tracing its origin back to the creation of the Chicago Teachers Federation in 1897, the A.F.T. was for most of its history one of organized labor's less effective branches. Teachers generally felt superior to a blue-collar approach, and the union itself was rocked during the '30s by Communist infiltration, which was eventually eradicated. Under the 1952-1964 presidency of Carl J. Megel, membership grew from 39,000 to 100,000. The union's biggest local, New York City's United...
...American Motors Chairman Roy D. Chapin Jr. proclaimed: "The center of this market has been unoccupied-until today!" On that cue, a shiny new Rambler American burst through a paper partition. It carried a new, low price tag, which, said Chapin, would make it a "total value superior to the imports and superior in both price and range of choice" to U.S. compacts...