Word: foremost
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Into a Crossfire. Perhaps the foremost obstacle to Lodge's winning the 1964 G.O.P. nomination is his present position in South Viet Nam. Last year, anxious to get back into public life, he volunteered his services to President Kennedy, specified only that he be assigned to a truly meaningful overseas post. He got South Viet Nam-which some people thought was rather cunning on Kennedy's part...
...Italy, where the government has launched an unpopular austerity drive to halt rising prices, the man in the street has found a new scapegoat in la cara vita. And the French, who love to complain, moan relentlessly about la vie chere. In any language, inflation is Europe's foremost economic preoccupation-and the problem that most threatens its extended boom...
...called Negroes are just beginning to understand that they occupy a strategic political position," he asserted. They must now demand that all politicians be unrelentingly concerned, first and foremost, with the needs of Negroes...
Leaking Stories. Bootlicker he may have been, but Baker was also an extremely agile, able young man. Concedes a Democratic Senator who is not listed among Baker's foremost admirers: "Bobby always knew more about what was going on around here than most anybody else." But life was not all work for Bobby: in 1950 he wooed and wed Dorothy Comstock, a slender blonde from Springfield, III., who worked then and now on the Hill as a clerk of the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee. Their wedding reception, to Baker's everlasting gratification, was held...
...Foremost among the animal sculptors was Antoine-Louis Barye, a man who never traveled farther from Paris than the tranquil cow country of nearby Barbizon. A student of the early romantic painter, Baron Gros, he was an apprentice metal chaser at 14, and later a goldsmith. He went to museums and libraries to study stuffed animals and see pictures of them in their natural habitats, visited zoos to watch them in motion, measured their anatomies after they had died. So vividly did Barye give life to his tiny bronzes that his contemporary, the painter Delacroix, once said...