Word: foremost
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...Russell found several colleagues in a dismantling mood, and foremost among them was South Dakota Democrat George McGovern. Warning that "excessive" military spending was "distorting our economy, wasting our human resources and restricting our leadership in the world," McGovern called for a flat 10% cut from the $22.8 bil lion allotted to weapons procurement and research and development. The measure, blasted by Barry Goldwater as equal to unilateral disarmament, was opposed by 74 Senators, supported by three Democrats besides McGovern...
...missions to Okinawa. From then on, he always carried a stone with him. Stones have led him to a charmed life: World War II ended before his name came up for a suicide sortie, and now, at the age of 40, Nagare is Japan's foremost sculptor (see opposite page...
Egbert also has to live down some mishaps from the '63 model year. Foremost among them was the longnose, short-tail Avanti sports car, which Egbert intended as his answer to the Thunderbird. An incredible series of production snafus involving its Fiberglas body delayed the Avanti's debut by six months; Egbert had confidently predicted 10,000 sales of the '63 Avantis-at about $5,000 each-but only 1,743 have moved. Similarly hurt was the sales potential of another Egbert innovation, the Wagonaire station wagon with a sliding roof; at the last minute, Studebaker discovered...
Even J.C.S. Chairman Maxwell Taylor, one of the Pentagon's foremost treaty advocates, predicted that the Russians would cheat by clandestine tests. But he denied that the "gains that might come from this kind of testing would have any great bearing upon our relative position...
Long Neck. No one bites steer lips any more, but last week, at the annual rodeo at the Colorado State Fair in Pueblo, one cowboy was far and away the foremost master of the rest of Pickett's technique. James ("Big Jim") Bynum, 38, three times (1954, 1958, 1961) world's champion bulldogger, has dominated the sport with his 250-lb., 6-ft. 4-in. frame for more than a decade. Up until the Pueblo go, Bynum had piled up $12,409 in steer-wrestling competition in 1963. With almost three months left before the National Finals Rodeo...