Word: paramount
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...picked up 20% of the stock in Manhattan-based Canada Dry Corp., the biggest U.S. maker of ginger ale and soda water and the third largest maker of soft drinks (after Coca-Cola and Pepsi-Cola). At the same time, Simon bought 95,000 more shares of American Broadcasting-Paramount Theaters, raising his total to 205,000 of the company's 4,600,000 widely owned shares. Most or all of these 205,000 shares are owned by the Simon-controlled McCall Corp., publisher of McCall's, Redbook and other magazines...
...says she. "I am running against no one. I'd like to be President. I think my experience and my record are greater than any other candidate or any other of the unannounced candidates. It's a real chal lenge, and that's one of the paramount things. When people keep telling you that you can't do a thing, you kind of like...
...marquees in 1942 as the suave, trench-coated hood in This Gun for Hire (with Veronica Lake), played much the same cool role some 200 times thereafter, winning brickbats from the critics (except in Shane) but such dogged admiration from the fans that, as he once said, "every time Paramount wants to meet the payroll, they start an Alan Ladd picture"; found dead in bed; at his Palm Springs, Calif., home...
Stunned Silence. For the inauguration last week, guests from 64 countries crowded Monrovia's luxury Ducor Intercontinental Hotel, and paramount chiefs representing Liberia's 20-odd tribes brought with them retinues of up to 30 people, including wives, children, relatives, and entertainers such as dancers and drummers. In the streets, delirious crowds held arches of flowers and hurled bushels of confetti as Tubman whirled proudly through the streets in his Cadillac convertible during the inauguration festivities. Applause greeted every pronouncement in his inaugural address until he came to the final ringing sentence: "I enter upon the execution...
...monstrous purge trials were under way. One after another, the old Bolsheviks took the stand, confessed monotonously to fantastic plots and implicated Trotsky. The more of them the maniacal Stalin murdered, the more he seemed to fear Trotsky. "The frenzy with which Stalin pursued the feud, making it the paramount preoccupation of international Communism, beggars description," writes Deutscher. "There is in the whole of history hardly another case in which such immense sources of power and propaganda were employed against a single individual...