Word: topnotcher
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...work with, Johnson at first found it hard to recruit top men for government. But his recent appointments-Arthur Goldberg to the U.N., Thurgood Marshall as Solicitor General, John Gardner as Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, and Abe Fortas to the Supreme Court-have not only been topnotch, but should make it possible for him to get almost anyone he wants in the future...
...meeting, sponsored by West Germany's Paulist Society for Christian lay men, included such topnotch theologians as Jesuit Karl Rahner and Herbert Vorgrimler of Freiburg as well as three observers from a new Vatican secretariat for nonbelievers, which is headed by Franziskus Cardinal Konig of Vienna. The major Communist speakers were French Party Theoretician Roger Garaudy and one of Bulgaria's ranking ideologues, Asari Polikarov...
...obvious course to take is to apply also to schools other than those with ten or more topnotch requests for one place. Many state schools, particularly in the Mid-West, Far West, Rocky Mountain Region, of the South, give preference to students in their states or areas. The geographical factor may be noted in the booklet Admission Requirements for American Medical Colleges...
...creation of an "Interstate Commission for Planning a Nationwide Educational Policy." The commission, as Conant envisions it, ought to be a formal compact approved by Congress and composed of representatives chosen by the states-not educators but rather distinguished citizens such as those that serve as trustees of topnotch universities...
...introductory mathematics textbook, it would still be difficult to find a book as unrevealing of the author's character as A Profile. Virtually all of Pettigrew's exuberance, humor, and fondness for improbable metaphor has been carefully excluded. Yet if scholarship has supplanted lively writing, the scholarship is always topnotch and usually provocative...