Word: paramount
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...schools could have a profound effect on the outcome of the Harvard-Princeton confrontation. Because that duel stacks up as one of Harvard's front-line aces against Princeton's depth and relay strength, the ability of each team's secondary performers to reach the finals will be of paramount importance. Princeton's "bench" seems stronger than Harvard's, so if both schools' supporting casts are kept from scoring because competitors from other schools displace them in the finals, Harvard would gain an edge...
Lecture--Gorden Weaver, Paramount Pictures; and Martin Kirschen, ABC-TV; Room 20, Burden Hall, Harvard Business School...
George Jackson, who is working on the club with DiNicola, said he would like to see Harvard field an intercollegiate boxing team "if the interest is there." Both of them stressed that physical conditioning is the boxer's paramount concern, as well as his formidable...
...years, of course, Paramount has been getting just the opposite news about Star Trek's box-office potential. The show was dreamed up by Roddenberry in 1966, because he thought that science fiction might provide a persuasive way of telling a hopeful, and presumably profitable, vision of history. Says he: "It seemed to me that if I had a ship, a home base, I could take it out and make any kind of comment I wanted...
Prompted by all this unexpected success, Paramount scheduled a low-budget movie several years ago. Then, when Star Wars hit, the studio returned to the project at a speed approaching warp seven. The new movie will have an expensive layering of special effects. Optics Wizard Robert Abel has been hired to give that cloud of electric whipped cream a throbbing, ominous personality. "It's so big you can't make a model of it," he hints vaguely. "It's so awesome, so powerful and has so many unique identities . . ." When the monster first appears, audiences will...