Word: best
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...JOSEPH, PROMISE TO DO MY BEST, TO DO MY DUTY TO GOD AND MY COUNTRY, TO BE SQUARE, AND TO ... Alive Was Kenny Travers, 7, whose mother told a reporter, "I hugged him and hugged him" -whereupon Kenny interrupted, "And you said I can get candy whenever I want ." Two days later police watched understandingly as a man beat his hands against the door of Our Lady of the Angels, crying: "Come on out now, son. I'm out here waiting...
This week free Berlin cast its vote: for Mayor Brandt's Socialists, 52%; together with Adenauer's CDU, his coalition polled 89%. But, best news of all, the Communists got a measly 1.9%, even less than their vote before Nikita Khrushchev put Berlin once again to the test...
Britain's intelligence agencies have long been regarded as the world's best. Despite slip-ups in World War II-as when a German agent served as valet to the British Ambassador to Turkey, and the distressing affair in The Netherlands when, for 20 months, the Nazis fed faked radio messages to London and captured 54 British agents-the British scored coups that helped make good the boast that Allied intelligence had won "the underground war" as well as the fighting...
...Manuel Tello, 59, Secretary of Foreign Affairs. Ruiz Cortines' able Ambassador to the U.S. for the past six years, he will probably be replaced in Washington by Antonio Carrillo Flores, 49, Finance Secretary under Ruiz Cortines and one of the best friends the U.S. has in Mexico...
...Girl), or lead to fun (Don't Marry Me). But it gets few assists from the lyrics, and the libretto gains nothing from its Joseph Fields brand of gag. Perhaps the right comparison for the show is not with first-flight Rodgers and Hammerstein but with second-best Rodgers and Hart. Such work might well be less smoothly professional than Flower Drum Song, but it was more individualized. If it sagged, it would suddenly soar; if there was nothing notable for the nightingale, there was something delightful for the mockingbird. The Hart wit waltzed to a Rodgers tune...