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...idea of having ex-Presidents join their ranks (TIME, Feb. 15). Snorted Harry: "The United States Senators-the 96 when I was there, and the 100 now-are all prima donnas. I was one of them, and I know what it meant. Every one of the Senators is a topnotch man in his own state and is used to the limelight there. He would like to have the same consideration in the Senate. They don't seem to want some one of [presidential] stature in the Senate with them...
...equally plain that NBC had raised a fuss - perhaps in a deliberate attempt to get freewheeling, free-talking Paar into line - over a story far milder than many other things heard on previous Paar shows or elsewhere on TV. But NBC was in no mood to lose a topnotch performer - and moneymaker. All week long newspaper re porters haunted Paar's suburban home in Bronxville, recording every sob and sigh. According to Paar, even NBC President Robert Kintner and NBC Chairman Rob ert Sarnoff had tried to reach him by phone. "They're not bad people...
...gigantic mold of a Wagnerian hero, a tenor should 1) have a voice big enough and resonant enough to soar over the timpani-tempered Wagnerian orchestra, 2) be robust enough to support swooning Wagnerian sopranos, and 3) preferably be named Lauritz Melchior. At the Metropolitan Opera last week, a topnotch revival of Wagner's Die Walkuere (conducted by Karl Boehm) offered the audience a dramatic tenor who ideally fulfilled the first two requirements and made the third one seem unimportant. The tenor: 33-year-old, Canadian-born Jon Vickers...
...Western Comfort. Just as short are good teachers (poor ones abound). Africa's best are often wasted; Makerere's topnotch professors often have classes of only six students when they could be teaching 50. The need is all the more urgent as the European teacher supply dwindles. Example: the Sudan's fine University of Khartoum (enrollment: 1,260), where Britons are leaving the faculty and few Sudanese are replacing them. Fearing lower standards, Khartoum hopes to attract U.S. teachers through exchange programs. The hope may be ephemeral: perhaps 300 U.S. teachers are now in Africa, most...
...must clear everything he does with his department chief. Martin's men at Cape Canaveral are as good as any. Yet they complain of silly rules that forbid coffee or Coke breaks (one Denver scientist was recently dismissed for drinking Coke from a Thermos at his desk). Ten topnotch engineers of Martin's missile-test group recently went looking for new jobs as a group because, as one engineer said, "I'd like to work in a happy shop for a change...