Word: foremost
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seem like it at times. Rome, after all. is not Hollywood-a fact that Cinemactress Sophia Loren, 27, rudely learned last week. Scheduled to receive her Academy Award Oscar for Two Women at a black-tie do in Rome. Sophia was snubbed by some of Italy's foremost politicians, and the affair had to be canceled. Left-Wing Socialist Pietro Nenni, unhappy that Sophia's sister married a Mussolini, sent his regrets; Entertainment Minister Alberto Folchi, aware that Sophia is living in sin with Producer Carlo Ponti (since bigamy charges brought against Ponti forced them to disavow their...
...records show exceptionally high promise of continuing intellectual achievement should be sought out and admitted without regard for any other criteria save those indicative of emotional maturity and good character. All other applicants for admission should be considered in the light of the fact that Yale is first and foremost an intellectual enterprise." A bit to the northeast, women also got their due-or something close to it. When the Harvard Corporation in 1892 approved the launching of Radcliffe College, it cautiously raised an academic fence between the female annex and the Harvard Yard by resolving that "no Harvard...
...rebuttal, Davis declared that Communists work "first and foremost for the national interest of the country." He later added that peace depends on the continued unity of the world Communist movement; "There is something we call international solidarity...
...poised for takeoff. Hunched over steering wheels, leather-masked drivers squinted through their goggles as the crowd shouted: "Stripe it, Chevy!" "Twist him off!" At the signal, the cars roared away-but not to the wail of a police siren. In Pomona, Calif., last week, the country's foremost hot-rodders were holding their Winternational Drag Racing championships before 39,000 cheering auto buffs...
...Armed Services Subcommittee hearings on military "muzzling" (TIME, Feb. 2) had gone much farther last week, it was apparent that Strom Thurmond and Arthur Sylvester would never really understand each other-and that the trouble was more than a matter of accent. As the Senate's foremost critic of the Defense and State Departments' policy of reviewing public statements by military leaders, Thurmond was trying to prove that censorship has been capricious-and worse. There has been, he darkly hinted, a "secret, defeatist" policy within the State Department to prevent the military from speaking out against Communism...