Word: ranked
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There is unrest in the rank and file of the party. The extremist newspaper Transvaler has recently printed letters from troubled readers warning that "we dare not keep the African in our country and deny him full civil rights . . . We are going to pay with the blood of our children for the luxury we enjoy today. That is the ugly truth." There is a strong but probably wishful feeling in United Party circles that the nation is turning away from the Nationalists. For the Africans there is little choice. The United Party also wants the African kept in his place...
...Manhattan's projected Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, the Metropolitan Opera is busy with another building program. Aside from the great names on its roster-Maria Callas. Victoria de los Angeles, Richard Tucker, Mario Del Monaco, Leonard Warren, Cesare Siepi-it is adding to its solid second rank by bringing in exciting newcomers who, more than the established stars, are making this a memorable season. Some of the best of the new voices...
...buzzed with rumors last week that Billionaire Jean Paul Getty, 65, the richest American (TIME, March 4), would soon unite the three major oil companies that he controls. Together the $163.4 million Getty Oil Co., the $679.6 million Tidewater Oil Co., and the $339.1 million Skelly Oil Co. would rank as ninth richest among U.S. oil firms. On the rumors, Getty Oil stock (81% owned by J. Paul Getty himself) jumped 2⅝ points to 26⅛ as 71,300 shares were traded in only two days. But last week in Paris, Getty waved off the rumors: "Nonsense...
Pursuit of the Graf Spee (Powell and Pressburger; Rank) is a good sea story, not very well told; but there are moments when it holds, like a sea shell, the soundIng memory of the waves Britannia used to rule...
...Svensk; Rank). On the subject of temptation, Martin Luther once said: "You can't prevent the birds flying over your head, but you can keep them from nesting in your hair." With this for his text, Swedish Director Ingmar (Torment) Bergman*has preached in this picture a sermon on sensuality that the pastor of Wittenberg would scarcely have said amen to. But the Swedes, whose notions about sex have changed since Luther's time, were tickled pink with the picture. So were a lot of European critics...