Word: foremost
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Progress-minded Iranians-foremost among them the Shah-have long tried to modernize and Westernize Iran. These efforts are resisted by both the Communists and fanatical Moslems. The Shah himself last week described this as "an unholy alliance between two extremist wings, black reactionaries and unpatriotic, destructive Reds...
Died. Thor Thors, 61, Iceland's ruddy, affable diplomat of all work, delegate to the U.N., Ambassador to the U.S., Argentina, Brazil, Mexico and Canada, Minister to Cuba, and foremost salesman of home-grown codfish, who, whenever fellow diplomats asked how come so many jobs, smilingly replied: "My country cannot afford more ambassadors": of internal hemorrhaging two weeks after the death of Brother Olafur Thors, Iceland's five-time Prime Minister and leading statesman; in Washington...
...Washington guard. Next spring 46-year-old Lord Harlech will be replaced by Britain's recent Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Sir Patrick Dean, 55. The son of a Cambridge pathologist and later a Cambridge don himself, gregarious Sir Patrick is one of Britain's foremost experts on international law. He joined the diplomatic service shortly after World War II, moved up through a variety of jobs to become chief of mission...
...took over the technological lead, bringing its vast resources to bear on rocketry and space exploration. Last week an important corporate alliance joined the two traditions. In another of the expansion moves by U.S. firms that have so irritated many Europeans, Seattle's Boeing Co., the foremost U.S. producer of strategic-weapons systems, acquired a one-third interest in Bölkow GmbH, West Germany's most avant-garde aerospace research and development firm (1963 sales: $23.5 million...
Though second in size to the Svenska Handelsbanken and less renowned than the Wallenbergs' Enskilda Bank (TIME, June 7, 1963), Skandinaviska has long been Sweden's foremost international bank and is widely regarded as its most modern and creative financial institution. In its earliest major deals a century ago, it raised money in Germany for Sweden's infant railroad and financed Swedish iron and timber ex ports. Skandinaviska also bankrolled the worldwide ventures of Swedish Match King Ivar Kreuger to the tune of $65 million, and his collapse in the 1930s almost brought the bank down...