Word: paramount
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Amid the minarets and arabesques of the busy capital of Kuala Lumpur (pop. 300,000), a solemn convocation of sultans and state chieftains gathered last week. Their job: to elect the one of their number who for five years will be His Majesty the Paramount Ruler of the Independent State of Malaya (at a salary of $60,000 a year plus perquisites) when the new Commonwealth nation comes into being at the end of this month...
...traffic safety conditions described in your June 24 article will undoubtedly be extremely advantageous to American motorists. However, the paramount highway problem is the frightening condition of too little brain power guiding too much horsepower...
...year Disneyland broke into the black, now pays Walt Disney some of his most handsome dividends since Mickey Mouse. The Disney family owns 48% interest in Walt Disney Productions, which in turn owns 66% of Disneyland's 14,500 shares; the remaining shares are held by American Broadcasting-Paramount Theatres...
...Commandments (Paramount...
Loving You (Paramount) is an authorized pseudo biography of the professional career of Elvis Presley. The only substantial departure from fact is that the movie's Deke Rivers is a clean-living Texas orphan, whereas Elvis is actually a clean-living Tennessee homebody with a real mom and pop. The big pitch in Loving You is that Deke, wide-eyed and unspoiled, is victimized by a predatory lady pressagent (Lizabeth Scott) and a scheming bandleader (Wendell Corey). But the harder the venal two try to cheapen and exploit this naive lad, the richer he gets. He just...