Word: finests
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sure to watch Ricardo Wilson and John Youngs at 175. Wilson, Adams' only Analist, is a picturebook boxer, and is one of the college's finest counterpunchers. He has taken the championship each time he has entered. Youngs drew a bye in the semifinals yesterday...
Jerome Robbins? "Too self-obsessed. He's forgotten his point of view. He is not pushing forward any more." Martha Graham? "She thinks everything is expressible through a new technique." The Royal Ballet? "Too tradition-bound." The Bolshoi? "Too obsessed with characterization and athletics." The Kirov? "The finest in the world." Balanchine? "The greatest influence on ballet and dance in the Western world. He is pushing forward." So says the San Francisco Ballet's Lew Christensen, who in his 17 years in San Francisco has developed his company into one of the most versatile anywhere, and second only...
Atop Hawaii's clear, cloud-free Mauna Kea (13,784 ft.), new telescopes sweep the skies from a site that Astronomer Gerard Kuiper terms "the finest in the world-I repeat, in the world." Five space-tracking stations in the islands now spot missiles and satellites. A hundred miles northeast of the island of Maui, a place where the ocean is three miles deep has been chosen for the $71 million Project Mohole-an attempt to drill three miles through the earth's crust to the underlying mantle. A recent business-sponsored survey projected a possible annual income...
...majestic instant in oils, the deadly carnage by grapeshot and musketry is stilled, and the course of history is reversed by a great man. Last week one of the finest U.S. battle tableaux, unseen for 75 years, went on view at the University of California's Berkeley campus...
Died. Paul Joseph Sachs, 86, longtime (1917-48) professor of fine arts at Harvard, who in his dual role as associate director of the university's Fogg Museum helped make it one of the country's finest museums (most notably for its collection of European drawings), as well as the No. 1 training ground for aspiring curators (his students have run, among many, Manhattan's Metropolitan, Boston's Fine Arts, Washington's National Gallery), teaching them above all else to upgrade the quality of their museums' art-even if it meant selling the trustees...