Word: besting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Though Pekkanen admits that a list of 2,500 (out of more than 400,000 physicians in the nation) omits many of the best, bruised egos abound. Ignored doctors have sent Pekkanen their multipage résumés, and the distraught wife of one physician forwarded even more convincing evidence of her husband's merit: a photograph of him with Merv Griffin...
Meanwhile, that excellence is on view in Washington, making an eloquent case for the company's conservatism. If the Viennese venerate the ghosts in their midst, at least they have chosen to venerate the best. -Christopher Porterfield
...edict came after Mays decided to sign a ten-year contract worth more than $1 million with Bally Manufacturing Corp. to make public appearances on behalf of the firm's new Atlantic City casino. Such a close tie with a gambling organization, Kuhn ruled, "is not in the best interests of baseball," and he told Mays that if he works for Bally, he must give up his job with the Mets...
This has never happened to V.S. Pritchett, who, on the threshold of his 80th year, writes as passionately as ever. Talent, discipline and enjoyment keep the juices flowing; recognition helps. Knighted hi 1975, Sir Victor is generally regarded as the best literary journalist working both sides of the Atlantic. His two-volume autobiography, A Cab at the Door and Midnight Oil, are quiet marvels of English prose and self-appraisal, and his stories have accrued into a body of major work...
...agency, Powers believes, was badly served, as was the central figure in his narrative, Richard Helms, who headed the CIA from 1966 to 1973. A consummate professional, Helms was the proverbial man in the middle. His job was to furnish the best possible intelligence, and yet he had to contend with intense political pressures from the White House and the Pentagon. It was a high-wire act from which every CIA director has sooner or later tumbled...