Word: foremost
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...drug scene itself has imposed demands for organization on the hippies. Foremost among the do-gooders are the Diggers; named for a 17th century society of English agricultural altruists, the latter-day Diggers provide free food, shelter and transportation for down-and-out hippies in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Boston and the East Village (where a Digger with the nom de hip of Galahad maintains a crowded "crash" pad and returns runaways to their parents). San Francisco alone has such drug-derived service organizations as HALO (Haight-Ashbury Legal Organization), the HIP Job Coop, with 6,000 names...
Author Bataille, a screenwriter and novelist who was a finalist in last year's Prix Goncourt-France's foremost literary award-has perhaps revived Gilles de Rais's life a bit too fully. For mass horrors explicitly described, this book certainly has few rivals. Nowhere else, for example, can the reader find a set of instructions for playing ball with a human head...
...Though the U.S. is the world's foremost copper producer, it consumes more than its mines deliver. Using its defense stockpile as a club, the Government keeps the price of domestic copper (currently 38? per Ib.) well below world prices...
Canada's Expo 67 may be the foremost fair of the year, but it is not the northernmost. Some 100 miles below the Arctic Circle, along a swift-flowing river where the cannonade of breaking ice lately echoed, Alaska last week opened its own centennial exposition and applied to it what sounded like a highway designation: "A-67." As Republican Governor Walter Hickel inaugurated the frosty fiesta on a 42-acre site in Fairbanks (pop. 19,000), the nation's 49th and biggest state was already well into a yearlong shivaree commemorating the 1867 purchase from Russia...
...Hanley of Allegheny Ludlum Steel Corp. "It's embargoed." Similar protectionist obstacles cover hundreds of products, from U.S. coal (barred from Britain and the West German Ruhr) to whisky (which cannot be advertised in France). These problems highlight the fact that nontariff barriers now loom as the foremost remaining obstruction to trade...