Word: hardest
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...stagger an Amazon . . . Most ministers' wives have never heard a divine call, they have simply married men who have." They lead an "inexorable fishbowl existence," in which they are expected to be leaders and models in all fields. "Summarily stated, being a preacher's wife is the hardest of Kingdom positions...
...Hardest & Sweetest. The road has been hardest and success sweetest for Bell Telephone's wispy (125 Ibs.) Dr. Pierce. At California Institute of Technology, Pierce. 50, studied chemical engineering, switched to aeronautics and then ("I got bored drawing rivets") to electronics. Holder of 55 electronics patents, Pierce has written three technical books and seven (under the pseudonym of J. J. Coupling), science-fiction stories. His first space-fiction yarn, written in high school, described the abduction of New York's Woolworth Building by aliens from Outer Space...
...feet into Hong Kong bay. Miami has a new $350,000 radar approach system. Near San Francisco, the Federal Aviation Agency is building an ultramodern, $5,000,000 radar air-traffic control center, whose Remington Rand electronic brain will track all aircraft in a three-state zone. Hardest-to-lick problem thus far is jet noise, but airport officials hope that the new turbofan jet engines will eventually alleviate even that drawback of the jets. Dulles Airport is planting 80,000 trees around its rim to help absorb jet noise...
Marilyn Monroe and her husband Arthur Miller are in Reno-but not for the obvious reason. They began working together professionally last week for the first time, making a film called The Misfits, written by Miller (his first screenplay) and embellished by some of the hardest talent west of Mount Rushmore: Clark Gable, Eli Wallach, Montgomery Clift, Thelma Ritter, Kevin McCarthy and Director John Huston...
...More Complaints. Much of Kennedy's good press was appropriate and fitting. As the front-running, hardest-driving and by far the most engaging contender, Kennedy made more news than anyone else, and deserved the extensive pla'y he received. His well-lubricated public-relations machine was also stunningly effective in wooing newsmen. Long before Los Angeles, reporters discovered that Kennedy's able and imaginative aides were ever ready to accommodate a soliciting newsman with inside stories, exclusives and audiences with the leader. Said Kennedy Press Secretary Pierre Salinger: "Most of the press covered the convention...