Word: compliments
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...Inside, the building is almost column-free and airy, thanks to a system of long, glass-clad trusses on the roof. Outside, one wall of the building gives shape and style to the pedestrian walk, malting it an axis for the campus. The students pay the building a high compliment; they use it, so to speak, continuously...
Such conflict notwithstanding, President Nixon and San Clemente are a good match. San Clemente is Nixon's kind of town. It is clean and attractive, prosperous and Republican. Nixon can count on a warm reception from the community, and he returns the compliment. In their overzealousness, the Secret Service at first did not allow surfers to use Cotton Point even when the President was off in Washington. Nixon personally rescinded that restriction...
...also General Huang Yung-sheng, 64, Chief of Staff of China's People's Liberation Army. Last week when the heads of state of South Yemen and the Sudan came to town, Huang acted as co-host with Chou, who has accorded the general a rare compliment. Said Chou: "We do not have many persons like him in the country...
Accordingly, Tiomkin is paying his fellow Russian the ultimate compliment: for the musical interludes between performances of Tchaikovsky concertos, symphonies and stage works, Tiomkin composed the score himself (with help from the master's melodies, naturally...
...best lines. (Groucho always did.) He has all the rest too: the eyes and eyebrows that whip up and down like window shades, the fluent crouch, the quick leer and the quicker wit of an urban bordello cavalier. He is a great credit to the show and-the ultimate compliment-to Groucho...