Word: foremost
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...Foremost among the Negro combat heroes of Viet Nam are the two who won Medals of Honor. Pfc. Milton Olive, 19, won his award posthumously by throwing himself on a grenade and saving the lives of four multicolored squadmates during a fierce fire fight near Phu Cuong in 1965. The only living Negro Medal of Honor winner in the Viet Nam war is Medic Lawrence Joel, 39, now stationed at Fort Bragg...
...hall's entrance is graced by a hand some piece of sculpture by Masayuki Nagare, Japan's foremost sculptor - and a Takamatsu resident...
Freezing Formula. Johnson has long been the foremost champion of voting rights on the Southern bench-even though he was temporarily stymied in the early stages of U.S. v. Alabama, launched in 1959 as the first major test of the 1957 Civil Rights Act. In Macon County, 97% of eligible whites were registered to vote v. 8% of eligible Negroes-the familiar result of intimidation and tricky tests applied only to Negroes. To avoid giving the federal courts a target for injunction, the Macon registration board periodically resigned. The tactic worked; Johnson found that the 1957 rights law authorized suits...
Among economists and businessmen alike, today's foremost worry is how to keep wage escalation from becoming inflationary as the economy regains its momentum. "The major question is not whether we avoid a downturn, but what kind of advance we are likely to have," says Raymond Saulnier, who was chairman of President Eisenhower's Council of Economic Advisers and is now a Columbia University economics professor. Because the upturn will begin with low (currently 3.6%) unemployment, "it is virtually bound to be inflationary," insists Arthur Burns, another Eisenhower CEA chairman, now chairman of the National Bureau of Economic...
Sweet & Sour. Son of Norman Thomas, America's foremost Socialist and perennial presidential candidate, Thomas quit Princeton in 1941 to drive an ambulance in North Africa for the American Field Service, later served aboard a U.S. Navy LST in the Atlantic...