Word: brightest
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There were a lot of stars, but the brightest was newly elected cross country captain John Quirk. Quirk won, as expected, in the mile, but only after being challenged by Army's Deacon Fee in the last lap. Quirk ran a 4:12.2, finishing two yards ahead of Fee, who was clocked at 4:12.8. Tom New took third for the Crimson...
...nine remaining Democratic contenders. Just who would benefit most from his departure was uncertain, but both the George McGovern and Henry Jackson camps felt that Bayh's pullout would help them in the early Florida primary, where, after Indiana, Bayh's primary hopes had been brightest. Bayh went into seclusion. "During this time," he said of his wife, "I want to be at her side-not in Miami or Los Angeles...
Such statements emphatically do not mean that Democrats have given up on the "economic issue" as their brightest hope for defeating Nixon next year. They have merely shifted their fire from inflation to unemployment. Among the presidential hopefuls, Hubert Humphrey declaims: "More than five million Americans are today out of work.* How will they and their families benefit with no paychecks with which to buy food, clothing and shelter even at stabilized prices?" Washington Senator Henry ("Scoop") Jackson adds: "Having reluctantly become an economic activist, the President should go all the way and support tax-cutting and job-creating programs...
...brightest of PBS's established series, The Great American Dream Machine, has been wisely cut from 90 minutes to a more manageable one hour this year. But opening night-which aired some particularly imaginative segments, notably two charming cartoons and a droll sketch of a Mississippi crop duster-abruptly ended after 45 minutes in a foofaraw symptomatic of public TV's major ailment in the U.S. Since PBS and its producers get much of their financing from the Federal Government, and since this funding is not insulated from querulous annual scrutiny, the network quakes at the least cavil...
Among them, Ford, Webb and Quinn summed up the new prime-time TV season that premiered on the three networks last week. Some of the brightest and longest-holdout stars, now caught in the twilight of Hollywood and of their own careers, swallowed their images and signed on for TV series...