Word: foremost
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...single-engined de Havilland Leopard-Moth looked as if it might be powered by rubber bands. But the 1933-vintage monoplane was admirably airworthy. Out of the cockpit popped dapper Jehangir Ratan Dadabhoy Tata, 58, chairman of the country's flag-line Air-India, and India's foremost industrialist. Tata piloted the old flying machine over the 662-mile route from Karachi to Bombay to celebrate the 30th anniversary of India's first airmail flight, which he himself flew in a Puss Moth, the cousin of the Leopard. He had no trouble on the trip-except...
...have been a flop." Balanchine politely disagreed. Spartacus was hopeless from the start, he said, because it was based on a false conception. Like much of Russian ballet, it subordinated music and dancing to plot and decoration, whereas ballet should be music and dance - first, last and foremost...
Honored by the German Society for Photography, the world's foremost photographic organization: LIFE Photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt, 63. who returned to his native Germany for the first time in 27 years to accept a symbolic optical lens with an 18-carat gold rim and a $1.250 cash prize "as a photojournalist who has caught in pictures the world happenings and events of the last decades with rare feeling...
First and foremost is the return to action of most of the 32 players who last week graced the injured list. The number includes first string right halfback Hobie Armstrong, second string right halfback Hank Hatch, and veteran left guard Ernie Zissis. Only sophomore end Paul Barringer of the top 22 remains out of commission, although guard Bill Southmayd is still playing at only half speed because of a broken left hand...
...miles south of Paris, every loom is filled with work in progress; Gobelin in Paris, once the royal tapestry house for the kings of France but more recently a manufacturer of furniture, has put weavers back to work on modern tapestries designed by some of France's foremost artists. And in Lausanne, Switzerland, the first tapestry biennial exposition, sponsored by the International Center of Ancient and Modern Tapestry, has since June been attracting visitors from all over the world (see color...