Word: topflighters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...court, the Bembas had massive support. To plead their case, topflight Barrister Charles Russell, Q.C., carefully briefed by Catholic churchmen, had flown in from London. Listening intently in the tiny courtroom was Catholic Bishop Francis Mazzieri of Ndola, and packed beside him were clergymen of many denominations. All the Christian missionaries in the territory knew what might be at stake. There are only about 9,000 white missionaries in Africa (pop. 233,775,000). This means that native converts must carry the main burden of spreading Christianity, and they cannot function effectively if native courts can punish them for giving...
Publisher Lottinville, onetime Rhodes scholar, speaks with authority. For 20 years, he has run his bustling, 40-man shop in the shadow of an oil derrick. Yet Oklahoma is known for more than oil. Over the years, its topflight press has published 426 books, ranging from the influential Plowman's Folly (340,000 copies sold) to last week's Athens in the Age of Pericles, the first of an intriguing series on great cities. Oklahoma's recent music books make it better known in Milan and Bonn than many a famed name on Manhattan's publishers...
...students have led an academic double life. At the university campus in Palo Alto, they learned anatomy, biochemistry, microbiology and physiology. At the 237-bed San Francisco Stanford Hospital on Clay and Webster Streets, 35 miles away, they studied pharmacology and pathology, did their clinical work under a topflight, largely volunteer staff of local physicians and surgeons, long rated as one of the best in the country...
Vivaldi: Concerti (I Musici Ensemble; Epic). Five works for violins, cellos and strings by an Italian composer, the bulk of whose works remained unpublished until the late 19405. Since then, Vivaldi has been recognized as a topflight composer; he switches from gentle, birdlike flutterings to rough bearlike thumpings with masterful agility...
...most heavily soundproofed door. Though U.S. jazz as such is not officially banned in Russia, the culture commissars take pains to ridicule it as "bourgeois decadency"; concerts are nonexistent and nightclub jazz is discouraged; the importation and sale of U.S. jazz records is taboo. But last week two topflight U.S. Negro jazzmen just back from a month-long trip behind the Iron Curtain had news that the Russians not only know all about U.S. jazz, but play it with fervor whenever Big Brother is not looking. Jazz Pianist Dwike Mitchell, 29, and Bassman Willie Ruff, 28, came home amazed: "They...