Word: finests
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Japanese daimyo, or feudal lord, named Yorishige Matsudaira rode 350 miles southwest from Tokyo (then Edo) to take over the provincial capital city of Takamatsu on the sunny island of Shikoku. To commemorate his arrival, he called in the finest landscape architects in the land and had them build a magnificent garden, known as Ritsurin Koen, or Forest of Chestnut Trees, that even today draws visitors from all over Japan. When they come, they see in flourishing Takamatsu, now a city of 240,000, many another sight to please the eye. For Masanori Kaneko, 60, the local governor, has taken...
...voice over the loudspeaker introduces "the Jefferson Airplane, the finest sound ..." Grace interrupts. "We're not ready yet. Don't introduce us. When we're ready, we'll just start playing...
Last-Ditch Verdict. Soon after Selma came Johnson's finest hour of putting down lawlessness: the trial of the three Klansmen for gunning down Detroit Housewife Viola Liuzzo on Route 80 after the march. A Lowndes County jury had acquitted Collie Leroy Wilkins, though an FBI informant testified that he saw Wilkins commit the murder...
...received more visitors lately from West Germany than from any other country." Unruffled. Kiesinger explained that what was lacking was not the quantity but the quality of the consultations. "I don't know what you mean," said the President, "I have the best Cabinet ministers there are-the finest Secretary of State and the finest Secretary of Defense." Kiesinger explained that by quality he really meant timing; after all, consultations are not worth much after the decision has already been made...
...secrets is in his kitchen rather than at the table. Similarly, the place to understand a conductor's skills is at his rehearsals rather than at a concert. In the case of Arturo Toscanini, not only the keys to his greatness but also some of his finest performances were to be heard at rehearsals. "Any body who missed them, missed Toscanini," says Violist Nicolas Moldavan, who played under the maestro in the NBC Symphony. "That was where there were the moments of beauty and intensity that only Toscanini could achieve...