Word: topped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...order of call a man 19 or over receives tonight stays with him until he has passed through one year of I-A vulnerability. So if the junior is classed near the top of the order of call tonight, he cannot escape that rank by waiting for a later year...
...warmly intimate. He chose the sensuous over the coldly classical, and though he appreciated style, he did not care for the showy. Sometimes his predilections led him astray. He owned, for instance, ten works by the American painter John Carroll, whose wispy, willowy ladies were scarcely top quality even in their own time. Nevertheless, there are enough first-rate impressionist and post-impressionist paintings in the Tannahill collection to make any museum happy-especially the Detroit Institute. "One of our most worrisome gaps has been in the area of Impressionists and Post-Impressionists," says Director Willis F. Woods. Adds Assistant...
...what you want at first, try for something better." So young Cotzias went after the best, was accepted at Harvard Medical School-probably, Cotzias suggests, because no one there minded his fractured English-and was graduated cum laude. After training in neurology at the top places, Massachusetts General and Rockefeller University hospitals, Dr. Cotzias became a full-time researcher at the Brookhaven lab on Long Island, specializing in the movement and effects of trace metals in the body...
Unlike most of her predecessors, she has always been the prime mover of her own star; she has played Professor Higgins to her own Eliza Doolittle. In a community where everyone minds everyone else's libidinous business, Raquel has a reputation for having climbed to the top without using...
Only four men were even aware of the secret nocturnal meetings last spring in the Vatican's baroque Apostolic Palace. Two were top cardinals in the church hierarchy. Two were key participants: Pope Paul VI and Michele Sindona, the tough Sicilian lawyer who in two decades has risen from obscurity to eminence as a financier and industrialist. It is almost unheard of for a Pope personally to conduct the church's business affairs, but this was no ordinary occasion. Sindona and Pope Paul closed a deal that started a shift of profound consequence in the Holy...