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...suspenseful as tomorrow's office hours. But not at Manhattan's aggressive First National City Bank. President George S. Moore, 62, was a cinch to succeed Chairman James Stillman Rockefeller, due to retire next month at 65. But who would follow Moore? There was no lack of topflight candidates, as is only fitting for the bank that, with assets of $15 billion, ranks only behind the Bank of America ($18 billion) and Chase Manhattan ($15.8 billion). Moore himself had been no help in the guessing game, having once said that any one of the bank...
...drive to tear up all roots that bind China to Western culture, many top artists and performers are going through the same hell that Ma did. It was reported that Liu Shih-kun, topflight pianist and runner-up to Van Cliburn at the Moscow Tchaikovsky festival in 1958, had his wrists broken by Red Guards. Hung Hsien-nu, Canton's best-known opera singer, was tried by kangaroo courts, had her hair bobbed, and now works sweeping floors. Chou Hsin-fang, star of the Peking opera, and elderly Author Lao She (known in the West for Rickshaw Boy) have...
During a speech in Nashville last month, Lyndon Johnson promised to send to Viet Nam more topflight military leaders, "the best that this country has been able to produce." Delivering on that pledge the President last week announced the assignment to Saigon of General Creighton Abrams Jr., a World War II hero who is rated the ruggedest combat commander in the U.S. Army. He will become No. 2 man to General William Westmoreland, commander of all U.S. forces in South Viet...
...wholly justified. There is hardly a university in the nation that does not accept-indeed depend on-hefty grants from the Defense Department. CIA itself uses dozens of scholars and university specialists as consultants. In 1951, CIA gave -directly and without masquerade-$300,000 to finance M.I.T.'s topflight Center for International Studies. Until last spring, M.I.T. continued to accept agency funds, then terminated the contract "for practical, not moral reasons...
...been greatly assisted by the topflight men who work for him. "There are a lot of top executives who can't tolerate first-class men around them," he once wrote. "They separate the men from the boys, and hire the boys." By a stroke of luck, Gardner had 14 top-level positions in HEW to fill when he took over. Lyndon Johnson gave him a free hand in filling them ("Forget about any political considerations"), and Gardner picked men for the jobs...