Word: paramount
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Calling China one of the world's three paramount problems, Thomson named three requirements for an effective China policy...
...thing that survived the Communists' Tet offensive largely intact was South Viet Nam's lively political arena. In the center ring, of course, President Nguyen Van Thieu and Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky continue to maneuver for paramount influence. But the Tet offensive seems to have injected a new sense of urgency, a readiness to ask hard questions and to accept some unpleasant answers, into the Saigon body politic. Many pro-government political leaders, as well as those who oppose the government, are displaying a fresh critical spirit that begins with the realization that the government...
Reservoir in Man. After Yaa got her shot, Paramount Chief Nana Kwame Ofori made a pronouncement that was officially translated: "This exercise will be given the maximum support." Dr. William H. Stewart, Surgeon General of the U.S. Public Health Service, replied that it was a good thing so many countries were cooperating in an onslaught against two of the region's deadliest infectious diseases. Stewart pointed out that although Ghana has rung up a fine vaccination record recently, reported cases of smallpox have actually increased, because the disease has been imported by travelers visiting the country from other regions...
...five major newsreel companies in business eleven years ago, Warner Bros, (which had bought the name and original 1898 footage of Pioneer Charles Pathe) was the first to go, in 1956. A year later, Paramount News ("The Eyes and Ears of the World") went under; its library, 10 million feet of film dating from 1928, was sold to a TV film distributor. Movietone News (20th Century-Fox) stopped producing newsreels for the U.S. in 1963, though it continues to send them abroad...
Gold Rush. A few years later, Paramount cast Bob in The Big Broadcast of 1938. Hope remembers it as "the first major picture that didn't win me an Oscar-and they say history repeats itself." About all that anyone else remembers is the song that he introduced in it, Thanks for the Memory. In 1939, Hope, Crosby and Dorothy Lamour were signed for The Road to Singapore (two other comedy teams-Burns and Allen, and Fred MacMurray and Jack Oakie-refused to touch...