Word: topflighters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Madison, N.J., an imported Welsh terrier named Topflight Template of Twin Ponds outclassed 2,611 other entries to win the Morris & Essex Dog Show, biggest...
Most observers of the European scene class De Gasperi-along with such men as Germany's Adenauer, France's Schuman and Belgium's Spaak-as a topflight and selfless statesman-politician. Few would call him a "great man." But time & again he has been paid a handsome tribute in a land where the simple goodness of a Francis of Assisi, the Italians' patron saint, is more admired than the brilliance of a Thomas Aquinas."He is a good man," explains one Italian. "He means what he says.""De Gasperi," said a top U.S. diplomat...
...Harvard last January to become U.S. High Commissioner in Germany, James Bryant Conant made quite a stir as the aggressive champion of the comprehensive public high school. "A dual system [of schools]," said he in a speech in Boston, "serves and helps to maintain group cleavages." Last week another topflight Ivy Leaguer took an uncompromising position on the other side of the question. As things are going now, said Princeton's President Harold Dodds at a Loomis School ban quet, a single school system would be a national calamity. One reason: because the public-school system is not doing...
...Boston, Lightweight Champion Jimmy Carter successfully defended his title against hapless Featherweight Tommy Collins (see RADIO & TV). ¶At Las Vegas, competing against a topflight field of 19 tournament winners, Golfer Al Besselink of Grossinger, N.Y. took the $35,000 Tournament of Champions first prize of $10,000 with an 8 under...
Happy Fishing Grounds. As usual, some of the best waters for big bass should be the lakes of the Southeast, especially Alabama and Georgia. But bass bugs will also be bobbing happily in two huge, new man-made lakes, where careful conservation and fine feed-beds produce topflight fishing; Arizona-Nevada's Lake Mead and the Dale Hollow Reservoir shared by Kentucky and Tennessee. Wisconsin and Minnesota fishermen, with nearly 20,000 lakes to choose from, are itching for more battles with the monster muskies (record catch...