Word: finests
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lyndon Johnson's proud prejudgment, historians will record it as "The Great Congress." And so they may. But few would claim that the 89th's finest hours came in 1966. After a historic first session that passed 105 important bills, the Congress generally thumb-twiddled its way through its second session, only to burst into a fevered eleventh-hour blur of action that added little to its luster...
...where the polarities of the nation are reflected in microcosm. Sprawled on both sides of the sluggish Pasig River, the city straddles a grey-green current that carries both sewage and water lilies into Manila Bay. Many of its streets are potholed; rats chitter behind the wainscoting of its finest restaurants; street urchins peddle everything from lottery tickets to fragrant sampaguita garlands ?all at outrageous prices. The current craze requires shops to have a D apostrophe preceding the English names, as in D'Artland Gallery, D'Elegant Theater, D'Stag Cocktail Lounge and D'Best Furniture Store...
...travel those parts of the world-Spain, North Africa, Scandinavia-which the Post never bothered to cover in the past. In his 32 years on the police beat, Al Lewis has proved as skillful at promoting new police techniques as he has at uncovering scandals among Washington's finest. Cartoonist Herblock, who, it is said, has "destroyed more psyches in Washington than any other individual," remains as scathing as ever...
...landscape, but Rembrandtesque, life-sized faces of those he knows well. As his subject matter has become increasingly human, his painterly light seems to glow within his subjects rather than wash them from the outside. Wyeth himself believes that two of his recent works (see opposite) are his finest portraits...
Buffle, one of the nation's finest Thoroughbreds, died late Tuesday at Belmont Park. The three-year-old colt, generally regarded as second only to mighty Buckpasser, had been suffering since last Thursday of a mysterious brain ailment which paralyzed his face muscles and prevented him from eating...