Word: foremost
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...Eloquence. He will need more than glad glands. A January survey by the esteemed State Poll showed that the two foremost candidates for the Republican nomination were both widening their earlier leads over Brown. Actor Ronald Reagan was ahead by 4.4% , former San Francisco Mayor George Christopher by 15.1%. Brown brushed this aside with his wonted non-eloquence: "I've never been ahead in any poll, but when it gets right down to the 18th hole and you have to sink those long putts...
...languages and writes fluently in three, Eliade, 58, is a prolific novelist as well as chairman of Chicago's history of religion department. His new book, Mephistopheles and the Androgyne: Studies in Religious Myth and Symbol (Sheed & Ward; $5), demonstrates why he is probably the world's foremost living interpreter of spiritual myths and symbolism. Jerald Brauer, dean of Chicago's divinity school, and other scholars compare Eliade's works to those of the modern pioneer of myth collection, Sir James Frazer (The Golden Bough). Unlike Frazer, an agnostic who deplored the mindless cruelty and superstition...
...served as Acting Dean of the Law School twice, in 1936-37 and from 1942 to 1945. In 1940, Morgan was president of the Association of American Law Schools. As one of the foremost experts on the law of evidence and procedure he served as a member of the advisory committee to the U.S. Supreme Court on Rules of Civil Procedure...
Died. The Rev. George Clair St. John, 88, longtime (1908-47) headmaster of Choate, who turned a tiny Connecticut establishment of 35 students into one of the U.S.'s foremost prep schools with an enrollment of 600 and the highest of academic rankings; of cancer; in Hobe Sound, Fla. "The Old Head," as his boys called him, forged Choate in his image; strongly Episcopal in his insistence on compulsory chapel, staunchly ethical in his devotion to the honor system, fresh and human in his habit of occasionally dismissing classes for a hike in the mountains. John F. Kennedy...
...Image Lag." A.M.C.'s difficulties are widely blamed on a lack of vision in the past. Five years ago, when recession-affected Americans turned to compact cars, the company's Rambler was first and foremost in the domestic compact market, almost became king of the road. Just to meet the demand and get the car into customers' hands, A.M.C. President George Romney-now Governor of Michigan-permitted archaic and costly work practices to continue. A.M.C. executives now complain, with hindsight, that Romney paid lavish dividends to stockholders and perhaps too conscientiously used earnings to take the company...