Word: topflighters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Another Chinese physicist at Columbia, Associate Professor Chien-Shiung Wu, went to Washington. Working with a topflight team at the National Bureau of Standards, she arranged an elaborate deepfreeze apparatus to cool radioactive cobalt 60 to 0.01° above absolute zero ( - 273.1° C.). The cobalt nuclei are known to be spinning, and they continue to spin in the deepfreeze, but their random "thermal" motions are reduced almost to nothing by the extreme cold. This accomplished. Dr. Wu and her helpers applied a powerful magnetic field that pointed the cobalt nuclei in one direction as if they were tiny magnets...
...almost every Wall Street commentator was warning investors to beware the averages this year; playing them would not pay. Blue-chip prices are now so high that the Dow-Jones 30 industrials yield only 4.55% v. a yield of 4.29% for 40 bonds. Said Paine, Webber's topflight Analyst Luttrell Maclin: "The Dow-Jones is a mathematical monstrosity. It's the weakest kind of a crutch for the investor...
Accompanying the widowed Nehru: his daughter, slim, somber-eyed Indira Gandhi, 39, mother of two sons, who acts as India's first lady. A political name in her own right, she is a member of the topflight working committee of India's big Congress Party, and only woman member -by an overwhelming vote-of the party...
...stores clustered around a patio. Cost, including land and fixtures: $2,250,000. Last week, on a flying trip to the U.S., Oberoi was busy negotiating a deal to bring Pan American World Airway's Intercontinental Hotel Corp. into the operation of his new hotel, match its topflight facilities with equally modern management...
Since he perfected his style, Parry has so successfully demonstrated its value that every topflight shotputter has adopted...