Word: topflighters
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...Malaya, where Communist terrorists 1) had taken more than 3,000 lives; 2) were costing $150,000 a day to combat; 3) threatened tin and rubber production, Britain's best dollar earners. A few months before, Communists had ambushed and killed High Commissioner Sir Henry Gurney, the topflight colonial administrator who had been sent out to put order into Malaya's civil service. Said the London Daily Telegraph: "The trouble [has been] not only murder, but mugwumpery...
...Player-Captain Seixas had already picked his man. The U.S. Navy gave young Tony Trabert a 29-day leave. The U.S.'s brightest hope before he went into service last year, Trabert is a seasoned left-court doubles player (Seixas plays the right court) as well as a topflight singles player...
...chlorophyll craze which has been sweeping the U.S. for two years or more has no justification in scientific fact, the American Chemical Society heard last week from a topflight chemist, Professor Alsoph H. Corwin of Johns Hopkins...
...years or more and would hardly be missed by a nation already spending $50 billion a year on its defense. Nor would it drain the U.S. of qualified technical men. There are plenty of them around, but they are "working on iceboxes." He has letters from a number of topflight engineers and scientists who will work for the Government only if employed on something as exciting as rockets headed for space...
...born Sidney Franklin had to learn enough about bullfight technique to get through a face-saving appearance with yearling bulls at a rancho in the country. That was back in 1922, and with time off for wars, revolutions and surgical operations, Franklin, the only American ever to become a topflight matador, has been in or around bull rings ever since...