Word: topflighters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Prime Minister Andres Rivero Aguero, an old pal of the boss but also a shrewd politico with ideas of his own. A onetime plowboy who became a topflight lawyer, Rivero professes strong loyalty to Batista but obviously plans to campaign as a Great Compromiser, appealing to the majority that is fed up with both sides. Said he: "If I am elected President I will immediately ask Congress for a general political amnesty." He made it clear that this would apply to Castro. The rebels' reply was a renewed pledge to boycott the elections-and renewed violence. They set bombs...
Cincinnati apparently approves such firmness. Washington's principal rushed to Teacher Graner's support. William F. Hopkins, a topflight Cincinnati criminal lawyer, offered to defend her without fee ("More paddlings like that would help to keep down our prison population"), and 40 members of the Cuvier Press Club sent her an orchid corsage with a note saying, "We salute you!" Finally, the day before her case came up in court. Teacher Graner got the biggest boost of all. Her entire class. Roscoe included, chipped in nickels and dimes to throw a "good luck" party to wish her well...
France's square-set, hard-driving Louis Armand, 53, became president of the six-nation European Atomic Energy Community. A classic specimen of the topflight civil servants turned out by France's elite schools to carry on the nation's business while governments rise and fall, Armand is the engineer whose imaginative direction has restored French railways to a place among Europe's best. As president of a prospecting commission, he sparked the French drive to develop Sahara oil. Appointed one of the "Three Wise Men" in 1955 to look into Western Europe's energy...
Died. Edward Weston, 71, painstaking camera craftsman, one of the world's topflight creative photographers; of Parkinson's disease; in Carmel Highlands, Calif. At 37, Weston abandoned his Los Angeles portrait studio, moved to Mexico where he worked with Painters Diego Rivera and José Orozco, in 1926 returned to California, began a series of precise, sharply composed nature studies that made him famous, won (in 1937) the first Guggenheim fellowship ever given to a photographer. Weston used little equipment, almost never retouched or cropped his clear, spare negatives, cautiously refused until 1947 to use color film...
Died. Melvin Maynard Johnson, 86, topflight Mason, dean (1935-43) of the Boston University Law School; in Boston. A veteran Masonic official, he was Illustrious Sovereign Grand Commander, Supreme Council, 33rd Degree, Ancient Accepted Scottish Rites of Freemasonry for the Northern Masonic Jurisdiction of the U.S.A. from...