Word: topflighters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...special guest was Milton Stover Eisenhower, 58, president of Johns Hopkins University, topflight educator, a governmental pro of 30 years' experience, youngest of the brothers Eisenhower and the man nearest to Ike in all the world...
...this unexpected turn of events, an idea came to suave, balding Mahmoud Fawzi, Foreign Minister of the United Arab Republic and the only Farouk-era holdover to retain a senior post in Nasser's revolution. Fawzi, a topflight international lawyer, skillfully pounced on a fact which almost everyone else had overlooked: if the great powers were prepared to accept a compromise settlement, they could scarcely reject a compromise proposed by a united front of Arab states. And there was every reason why all Arab powers, including the violently anti-Nasser governments of Lebanon and Jordan, might join in sponsoring...
...phone calls were unmonitored. and most newsmen dodged the censor by phoning their stories at the top of their lungs to colleagues in London, Paris, Rome or Frankfurt. Said the A.P.'s Relman Morin, a two-time Pulitzer Prizewinner and topflight combat correspondent of World War II and Korea: "If any A.P. man is invalided out of Beirut, it likely will be because he lost his voice...
...University of Michigan's Elizabeth Caroline Crosby, 69, topflight neuroanatomist and the first woman to be appointed a full professor at Michigan's medical school. For five years after she got her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1915, intense, energetic Elizabeth Crosby served as principal and superintendent of schools in Petersburg, Mich., at one point also coached the boys' basketball team. She began teaching at the U. of Michigan in 1920, during her years there wrote and edited some of medicine's basic works on neuroanatomy, gathered probably the largest collection of sub-mammalian...
Space & Atoms. What saved the company in the postwar planemaker's famine was the same thing that made it grow in the first place: new ideas, plus topflight research into new fields. Gradually extending its contract to 87% ownership, General Tire gave Kimball the funds he needed to push Aerojet into liquid engines for some of the first U.S. military rockets: Douglas' early Nike, the Lark and Loon for the Navy. Aerojet branched out to work on underwater rocket engines, set up separate departments to pursue both liquid-and solid-fuel engines...