Word: prided
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...conglomerate splendors, San Simeon was considered a white elephant after Hearst died. The University of California politely refused it as a gift, and only reluctantly in 1957 did the state take it over as a park. Today, California's Department of Parks is bursting with pride. In less than a decade, the Enchanted Hill has brought in $6,163,182 from tourists eager to pay $2 each for the privilege of being ushered through its vaulted halls, past Roman baths, and into a billiard room hung with a Gobelin tapestry...
...pride of many a small-budget nation's air force is a snoop-nosed, 1,000-m.p.h. whizbang called the F-5 Freedom Fighter. A flight of Philippine F-5s snapped into escort positions around Air Force One when President Johnson took off on the Manila-to-Bangkok leg of his Southeast Asian trip. Belgium and The Netherlands are about to order the planes. This month Morocco's King Hassan, anxious to retire his aging Russian-built MIG-17s, will take delivery of a dozen...
Olympian Ultimatums. In Victorian times, the game of Fathers & Sons was a ruthless affair. Lord Randolph, Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1886, was type and exemplar of a caste-the British aristocracy, whose members had pride, privilege, titles to mark them off from lesser men, retinues of servants and the habit of ruling a vast household and an empire. They exacted a fearful price of admission from their heirs; the initiation rites were as painful as and more prolonged than those for an Apache brave. Before the little lordlings could dish it out, they had to learn to take...
...takes justfiiable pride in his international reputation. A member of the Russian delegation to a Congress of Sociologists told him recently that he was the most eminent non-Marxian sociologist in the world. He has bookshelves filled with his own works and their translations into virtually every major language...
...pride extends to the Sociology department he headed at Harvard. It was one of the smallest in the country, he points out, but during his 12 years as chairman it turned out at least one-third of the leaders of contemporary American sociology...