Word: brightest
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...probably will. For at 35, Tom Hoving (rhymes with roving) has proved to be the brightest star on Republican Mayor John Lindsay's new team, and in the administration's first eight months has proved himself a spitfire of crackling energy with an astonishing record for cutting red tape and getting things done. So rapid-fire are his ideas and projects that one day last week he rated headlines in New York's two morning dailies, for entirely different stories...
Kennedy Coiffure. The bloodletting was intended as a transfusion to rejuvenate the political coalition that young Hubert Humphrey put together in 1944. In a sense, the D.F.L. has been damaged by its very success. One by one, its brightest luminaries-Humphrey, Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman, Senators Eugene McCarthy and Walter Mondale-have gone off to Washington, leaving the party's fortunes in less gifted hands. Rolvaag, for example, was the earnest but lackluster lieutenant governor in 1962 when he won the D.F.L. nomination for Governor simply because there was nobody else to challenge Republican Incumbent Elmer L. Andersen...
...under any circumstances - there are no equivocations of that statement." And so, after one term in Congress and almost four years in the Pennsylvania Statehouse, ended the political career of Bill Scranton, 48, one of the U.S.'s ablest executives and one of the Republican Party's brightest lights...
...courses in accounting and economics-a practice he does not recommend for today's budding executives -and got a job with the Chicago branch of Cadillac. Soon his name was entered in G.M.'s "black book"-a loose-leaf binder with profiles of the 700 or so brightest comers in the company-and he was tapped to attend "the Greenbrier group," a triennial meeting in West Virginia where key managers debate grand strategy. Rising on the company escalator, he was moved up to general manager of Cadillac in the 1950s, the era when its cars sprouted their sharpest...
This is a profound yet light-footed film, agile as the brightest comedy. It can be seen on many levels, but it should be seen...