Word: highests
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Then in 1931 he hit oil in Conroe, Texas, in what proved to be the nation's third biggest field. It brought him a fortune estimated at $100 million, much of which he gave to his church-a beneficence that brought him two of the Vatican's highest honors for a layman-the Order of St. Sylvester and the Order of Malta...
...were preparing for another push. Indeed, the lull ended abruptly-and bloodily-with the Communist post-Tet offensive. This time, however, more seems to be involved. "This lull is not merely one of statistics, but more of gut feeling," reports TIME Correspondent Burton Pines from Saigon. "Some of the highest American military commanders, after citing caveats drawn from previous lulls, will admit that something is now different...
Athens Apex. The talk starts smoothly at the reception Doxiadis gives on the evening before embarkation. His triplex apartment is on the highest rooftop on the highest street in Athens. His guests look out on painfully appropriate urban contrasts: from marble-and-plate-glass luxury across the charmless sprawl of the modern city to the ruined perfection of the floodlit Parthenon. This year former Democratic Senator William Benton was holding court on a huge sofa, playing the part he loves: the crusty old American millionaire. Former Interior Secretary Stewart Udall, now a consultant on conservation, silently contemplated a Boeotian vase...
...first producer, William Frye, was allocated the highest series budget in the history of TV-nearly $8,000,000 for the 1969-70 season. That bought not only Lana but also George Hamilton, who seemingly has given up his escort service for serious acting ("Commitment," he proclaimed last week, "is 90% of life"). Some $200,000 was spent on the set-four times the TV average -and another $100,000 on wardrobes, $50,000 of it for Lana. But that didn't stop her from quarreling with Producer Frye over the jewelry provided. Frye couldn't be bothered...
...highest-priority aims of the radicals, to win over the "working class" to their beliefs, may well take that long - if it is ever achieved. Months ago, before the S.D.S. split into two fac tions over ideological disagreements at its June convention in Chicago, the S.D.S. determined that it would renew and intensify its efforts to infiltrate labor and create a revolutionary worker-student alliance. Similar "work-in" programs had been attempted before on a smaller scale, but this time the campaign was planned in detail. A lengthy Work-in Organizers Manual was circulated among S.D.S. chapters. At the convention...