Word: foremost
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Died. Dr. Ida S. Scudder, 90, third-generation American medical missionary of the Reformed Church in America, who dedicated her life to the fight against plague, cholera and leprosy, and who in 1918 started in Vellore, India what is today one of Asia's foremost clinic-medical schools, with current support coming from more than 40 missions;* of a circulatory ailment; in Kodaikanal, India...
...Foremost among the problems Nehru had in mind was the recent near-revolt of South Africa's blacks against apartheid. With Nigeria and Sierra Leone slated for early independence, this may be the last Commonwealth meeting at which there are as many white Prime Ministers as colored. The leaders of the Commonwealth's Asian and African nations, resplendent in achkans and bright-colored togas, had come to London determined to register their distaste for apartheid. "The eyes of the world are on the conference," said Ghana's Nkrumah. "I will not be silent on the issue...
...opening week of a month's concert tour of Europe, at Paris' Palais de Chaillot, Crooner Nat ("King") Cole packed in the locals, racked up a whopping $10,000 gross in one big night. The house was his, in some individual cases hysterically, and foremost among his backstage admirers was glamorous Grandma Marlene Dietrich, who this week will begin her own tour of West Germany...
Died. Toyohiko Kagawa, 72, Japan's foremost Christian social worker, the son of a nobleman and his concubine, who was converted to Christianity at 15, went to live in the harrowing slums of Kobe where he contracted both tuberculosis and trachoma helping the poor; of a heart ailment; in Tokyo. Kagawa organized labor unions and cooperatives the length and breadth of Japan, bitterly denounced his government for attacking China, though he later supported the war against the U.S. He continued his good works among Japan's masses after the war in spite of opposition from the Communists...
Pioneer & Prophet. As any skindiver will readily admit, his sport is almost the singlehanded creation of a lean (6 ft., 154 Ibs.). visionary Frenchman named Jacques-Yves Cousteau. He is, all in one. its pioneer, foremost promoter, prophet, and poet. As the developer of the Aqua-Lung, he set divers free to roam in the kingdom of the fish. With his book The Silent World (1953). he became diving's foremost philosopher. The prizewinning film made from the book opened the world's eyes to the magic world under the sea, sent both scientists and pleasure seekers hustling...