Word: brightest
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WASHINGTON, March 26--Some of America's brightest scientists are looking forward confidently to a manned space platform which could move about and return to earth at will...
...Bolivia is the brightest jewel in the crown of the Trotskyite Fourth International, the "true," workers-of-the-world-unite Communists who oppose the Russian Reds. In 1956 elections, the Trotskyites drew 2,300 votes, .2% of the Bolivian total. The other major Trotskyite enclave: Ceylon...
...where they had not appeared within memory. The display was so bright that it was seen in New York City, whose smoke and lights make it one of the world's worst observation points. Cecelia Payne-Gaposchkin, Chairman of the Astronomy Department said next morning that it was the brightest aurora that she could recall...
...brightest earnings news last week came from companies that sell directly to the U.S. consumer. Jewel Tea profits were up 12% to $7,800,000 in 1958, S. S. Kresge up 4% to $13.8 million, Kroger up 5% to a record $21.6 million. Retailers across the U.S. were setting an even faster pace in 1959. Compared with January 1958, last month's sales were up 7.2% for Lerner Stores, 7.8% for National Shirt Shops, 11.5% for S. H. Kress, 17% for Franklin Stores, 18.2% for Peoples Drug Stores...
...jobs, in a few years send to school another generation of hopeless pupils. But to some 450 youngsters at Manhattan's George Washington High School and Junior High School 43, an experimental teaching and guidance program offers a fair chance to complete high school, and for the brightest, a hope of going on to college. This week, after more than two years' trial, the New York City board of education pronounced the experiment a success, planned to ask for $500,000 to extend the program to some 30 lower-income-area schools...