Word: topped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...drags on in the slow-moving Turkish courts. While the State Department, in deference to its NATO partner, tried to hush up the whole affair, NATO Supreme Commander Lauris Norstad dispatched from Paris a personal investigating team headed by Major General Joseph Carroll, a onetime top FBIman, who was commissioned an Air Force Reserve colonel in 1948 to do police work. Carroll and his team made a study of black-marketing by U.S. personnel in Turkey at NATO's southeastern headquarters, which was apparently so hot that the Pentagon has steadfastly refused to make a line of it public...
...baubles and goodies that customarily make their appearance at this time of year, there are few that top the Gilbert and Sullivan Players' presentations for brightness and good cheer. Time after time, these offerings melt the stony hearts of joyless CRIMSON reviewers, even those who have never been known to say a kind word about any production or performance previously. Maybe it's the Christmas ghosts finally getting to us Scrooges. More likely, it is the fact that this group puts on shows with such style and spirit that only the lastditch Savoyards could fail to be enchanted...
These and the other four men who finally secure stable positions on the ladder will certainly have their hands full with Princeton, although probably not with Yale. The Tigers will always be dangerous as long as they have Steve Vehslage--the top ranked college player in the country, just one notch ahead of Harvard's Emmett...
WASHINGTON, Dec. 1--Neil H. McElroy, the first space age secretary of defense, resigned today and Philadelphia banker Thomas Sovereign Gates, Jr. was promoted to the top Pentagon post, McElroy is leaving after 26 months at the helm of the Defense Department...
What the versity accomplishes by the end of the season will depend entirely on how rapidly the sophomores develop. With Dartmouth, the present title holder, and Yale ready to make impressive bids for the top, the Crimson must become a cohesive unit early in the game. If it does not, Cambridge will have to wait another year for a really first rate outfit. But the spirit is excellent, and the passing and hustle so far have been more than adequate. As Weiland said, "the boys are anxious to get started. They think they can do something...