Word: oldest
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...impulse to deface public monuments is older than Kilroy. Lately, however, some Americans seem to be seized by a new urge to take a piece of history home with them. In Boston, about 20 plaques have disappeared from some of the nation's oldest historical landmarks-among them Benjamin Franklin's birthplace on Milk Street...
...Oldest Axiom...
...short, one of the oldest of axioms about Soviet Russia remains very much in force: Moscow will move in anywhere it can find an opening, provided the risks are not too great. Showing symptoms of an alarmist view of Soviet intentions, the U.S. reacted strongly last week to the possible establishment of a Soviet submarine-servicing base in Cuba, a development that has been watched for months. A White House official said that the U.S. views the base "with utmost seriousness" and "at the right moment will take the action that seems indicated." Such tough language seemed to be dictated...
...Although Americans accounted for four of the eight men's quarter-finalists and two of the four women's semifinalists in the U.S. Open Tennis Championships at Forest Hills last week, it was the Australians who won. At 35, Ken Rosewall became the oldest player to win the U.S. men's singles since Bill Tilden did it in 1929 at age 36. By winning the women's singles title, Mrs. Margaret Smith Court became the first woman to complete tennis' grand slam-the Australian, French, British and American championships-since Maureen ("Little Mo") Connolly turned...
...never quite sure whether I am one of the cinema's elder statesmen or just the oldest whore on the beat," said Joseph L. Mankiewicz last week, contemplating his 41 years in Hollywood. Mankiewicz, who won Academy Awards for both screenplay and directing in two pictures-Letter to Three Wives (1949), and All About Eve (1950)-ruefully admitted that big-budget movies, à la his Cleopatra, which cost $40 million, are now out. "What they would like my next four films to be," he said, "are Easy Cowboy, Midnight Rider, Cowboy Rider and Easy Midnight." Mankiewicz has apparently...