Word: topping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...White House conference room and shook the hand of the darkly handsome man standing by the fireplace. "Take charge, boy," he said, with a broad grin. "This is what you call the first team going in." A few minutes later, while President Eisenhower and the Pentagon's top brass looked on approvingly, Thomas Sovereign Gates Jr., 53, was sworn in as the nation's seventh Secretary of Defense...
...Gates, in sharp contrast, is a stiff-upper-lip Philadelphia investment banker and World War II Navyman (four stripes in Air Intelligence). He went to Washington as Under Secretary to Navy Secretary Robert Anderson (now Secretary of the Treasury), inevitably inherited the top Navy job in 1957. He ran a taut and tidy ship, was always willing to listen and learn, but ready with a decision when it was called for. When a new naval aide reported to him for duty, Gates told him: "Look, I need ideas. I can light my own cigarettes." Says a three-star admiral...
This Navy squad the varsity hopes to defeat Saturday was top team in the country last year. Like most service athletes, the Midshipmen will be big, tough, and in excellent physical shape...
...rivalry for first position between Emmet and Gallwey has hit a peak during the past wek, and as usual Gallwey at times edged out his teammate for top ranking. But Emmet, last year's number-two man and the second-ranked college player in the country, won the games that counted...
...Crimson racquetmen shut out their opponents 3 to 0, and only one match was carried to five games. But in that contest, captain Gerry Emmet first won two games and then led the Army top man 14 to 9 in the third, when suddenly the ball broke...