Word: foremost
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Harvard Law School dean emeritus Erwin N. Griswold, hailed by President Johnson as one of the nation's foremost lawyers, was sworn in as Solicitor General yesterday in Washington...
Gallup's most recent sampling shows that only 38% of the nation likes the way L.B.J. is handling the presidency-an alltime low for him and a long way from the 80% approval he enjoyed in January 1964. Viet Nam is his foremost problem, and barring either a spectacular military triumph or successful negotiations with Hanoi, a G.O.P. candidate might well argue, a la Eisenhower, that a new Administration is needed to end an unpopular war. The looming threat of inflation-"profitless prosperity" as Washington's Governor Evans calls it-is another bugaboo. The decaying cities...
...much Johnson has always admired Longshoreman-Philosopher Eric Hoffer (The True Believer). Actually Johnson had never met Hoffer, and nobody had heard him mention his name, but the reason for his sudden enthu siasm was clear. During a TV interview last month, Hoffer predicted L.B.J. would be "the foremost President of the 20th century." Wasting no time, Johnson brought Hoffer to the South Lawn of the White House last week for a chat. "The Trumans and the John sons get things done," Hoffer was overheard assuring the President at one point. "Don't worry about the polls," he said...
...Foremost, naturally, was Vic Gatto. Everyone agreed he was great and that was that. "Gary Strandemo's going to do something for us," the coach remarked. "He's different from Choquette (Tom, his predecessor at fullback); he doesn't knock'em down, but he runs to daylight well and has good hands...
...Mutual Life Insurance Co. has just increased its underwriting from $7,000,000 to $14.5 million, construction has slowed to a near standstill at six-year-old El Dorado Hills, a 10,000-acre new town 25 miles east of Sacramento. Ross Cortese, one of the nation's foremost developers of self-contained retirement villages, was forced to suspend sales and refund some down payments recently at four of his "Leisure World" communities in Maryland, New Jersey and California. To reduce his heavy land-carrying costs, he is also trying to sell the developments. Despite brisk business...