Word: foremost
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...most celebrated candidate in Panama's 1964 congressional elections was a dashing aristocrat named Roberto ("Tito") Arias. Part of his glory was admittedly reflected: both his father and an uncle had been Presidents of Panama, and his wife was Britain's foremost ballerina, Dame Margot Fonteyn. But Tito Arias could claim his own marks as well. Twice (when his family or friends were in power) he had been his country's Ambassador to London. Twice (when opposition families were in power) he had led spectacular, quixotic plots to overthrow the government, the last time in 1959 when...
Meanwhile, Boeing is going ahead as best it can. The B-2707 still has some design problems; foremost among them is the sonic booms it will create whizzing along at Mach 2.7 and the airport noise its engines will cause. But Boeing is confident that its swing wing, which folds back along the fuselage at 1,800 m.p.h. and opens out at slower subsonic speeds, may solve much of the boom and vvrrooom. And even while some engineers work at refinements such as these, others are already seriously at work on a new generation of jets to eventually follow. They...
...Bunk Detector. What the Now Generation possesses in every stratum is a keen ability to sense meaning on many levels at the same time. In its psychological armory it counts a powerful array of weapons-both defensive and offensive. Foremost among them...
Polo Balls. To begin with, even the foremost violinists are out of tune. Jascha Heifetz, Leonid Kogan and Isaac Stern like the dark, virile tone of the Guarneri; Zino Francescatti, Yehudi Menuhin and David Oistrakh prefer the lighter, silvery tone of the Stradivari. The Guarneri has the breadth and projection of a contralto, says one camp. Ah, yes, but the Strad has the clarity and finesse of a soprano, counters the other. That Stradivari enjoys a more illustrious reputation, says Heifetz, is because "he had a better pressagent." Actually, claims Jascha, "the Guarneri is a joyous woman, richly experienced...
...visited one of Japan's foremost plastic-surgery clinics? "We cannot reveal what sort of treatment Madame came for," volunteered a doctor on the Jujin staff. "That would be unethical." Madame Ky was only slightly more helpful: "I want to be more charming to my husband...