Word: greatests
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...practical success, Malaysia never really managed to overcome racial enmities. The Chinese and Indians resented Malay-backed plans favoring the majority, including one to make Malay the official school and government language. The poorer, more rural Malays became jealous of Chinese and Indian prosperity. Perhaps the Alliance's greatest failing was that it served to benefit primarily those at the top. It was not unheard of for a government official to discover a new car in his garage, its donor a mystery until a Chinese towkay (rich merchant) mentioned it offhandedly-and then perhaps asked for a favor...
...even hired an agency to keep her out of the public eye. There was nothing she could do, though, about the exhibit opening last week at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art, which paid her the honor of exhibiting 65 photos of Hepburn in many of her greatest roles. There she was, the stage-struck young beauty in 1933's Morning Glory, the prim but game Rosie in 1951's African Queen, the indomitable Eleanor of Aquitaine in 1968's The Lion in Winter. Yet nothing could capture the essential Hepburn better than her pose...
...modern architecture's idea-giver, analytical thinker and greatest educator. Professionally active and alert to the end of his 86 years, he died in Boston of complications following heart surgery. There was no funeral in the usual sense. "Wear no signs of mourning," he had instructed. "It would be beautiful if my friends would get together drinking, laughing, loving-all more fruitful than graveyard oratory." And so, 70 friends gathered last week to feast and recall the great architect...
Indeed, the strain is often greatest on the middle managers, who do not get the lift that conies from being on top. One personnel officer admits that his company's major health problem is that too many men seem to burn out at 55. The harried middle manager feels the hot breath of rising young men, who now start at salaries that it once took ten years to achieve. Frank Cassell, professor of industrial relations at Northwestern's Graduate School of Business, detects a widespread malaise that affects even these high-priced junior executives. "Young Northwestern alumni...
School desegregation was one of the Civil Rights Movement's greatest targets. Now they don't want it, and it's working against them. Voter registration is another project that used to be really up there...