Word: foremost
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sound and fury, the military problem stood foremost. The air support that saved the day at Quangngai and Binhchanh cannot be counted on in the rainy weeks ahead, when monsoonal cloud ceilings will touch the roof of the highland jungles. For much of each day during the next few months it will be a ground war, with the weather favoring the hit-and-run tactics of the lightly equipped Communists. With the rains beginning in South Viet Nam, small streams are already swelling into muddy torrents that will soon wash out bridges and roads...
While a bewildering array of soldiers and statesmen still strove to sort things out in the Dominican Republic (see THE HEMISPHERE), the two foremost foreign policy spokesmen in the U.S.-President Johnson and Secretary of State Dean Rusk-paused to assess the situation...
...SPORTS IN ACTION (NBC, 6:30-7:30 p.m.). The Boston Marathon, the U.S.'s oldest and foremost re-creation of the classic race, which attracts not only Olympic contenders but an assortment of aging pavement pounders...
...page, 65,000-item catalogue. Penney is about to build, in Bay Shore, L.I., its largest "new-generation" store, which will have three floors of merchandise, a restaurant, a beauty salon, and a 20-bay auto center that will dispense Penney gasoline and the company's Foremost* tires. Even the soft goods have changed dramatically: though Penney has kept its prices moderate, it now uses such stylish designers as London's Mary Quant and Mitzou of Madrid to create Penney dresses...
...Foremost" is a favorite Penney label. The Florida dairy with that name that J. C. founded in 1929, now has $415 million in annual sales. J. C. retains a minor interest...