Word: paramount
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Pink Bath Salts. While the new African woman is out to change her society, other women have risen to prominence in the traditional power structure. One of the best known of these is Honoria Bailer Caulker of Sierra Leone, who in 1961 was elected paramount chief of the Shenge district (pop. 25,000). A Junoesque woman who stands 6 ft. 1 in., Madame Honoria enjoys such baubles as a white Mercedes, an open palanquin in which she is carried by her subjects, a golden mace presented to her chieftaincy by Queen Victoria, and an elaborate bathroom in which everything from...
Ghana Second. The climax of the ceremony came that night, as the city lay bewitched in the jungle moonlight, and the Manhyia Palace flickered with torches. In a great field near by sat 27 paramount chiefs glittering with gold under huge, richly colored damask and velvet umbrellas. In a secret room inside the palace, observed by only six of his subjects, the King underwent the most sacred part of the tradition. After being ritually cleansed, he was seated briefly three times upon the Ashantis' sacred Golden Stool for the final ascension to power or "enstoolment." Only then...
...School for Social Research; in Manhattan. Maclver rose to fame in the 1920s as a humanist in an age of behaviorists. In his numerous books analyzing U.S. democracy (The Ramparts We Guard, Leviathan and the People, Power Transformed), he insisted that in sociology the search for meaning should be paramount...
Mary Cronin remained in Los Angeles, trying to keep pace with Mike himself as he raced around the Paramount lot. In preparation for interviewing Mike during a flight back to New York, she had bought five new tapes for her recorder. But she took the wrong freeway, nearly missed the plane, and in her rush left the tapes in the car. Nichols was delighted at this evidence of journalistic fallibility, but Mary didn't mind. She was elated at having her peripatetic subject strapped down beside her during the five-hour flight...
...success of the Viet Cong and the North Vietnamese has shown that the United States does not have the strength to deliver on its promises of protection to the puppet regimes through which it manipulates internal politics in countries of the Third World. An American withdrawal would confirm this paramount lesson of Vietnam, and it is thus understandable that President Nixon and his advisors have "ruled out" the possibility of an abrupt, immediate withdrawal...