Word: superior
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...American cities," continues Gaya-Nuňo, "which 50 years ago were little more than a set for a western-a street, some bars, horses and cowboys-now have museums far superior to those in Amiens or Pisa." At the same time, the big museums, such as Manhattan's Metropolitan, "are just about to surpass definitively the great museums of Europe, just as the small ones surpassed their European counterparts a long time...
...Lucia was the legislature's minority leader, the first woman ever to hold the post, and the mother superior of Maine's thriving Democratic Party. Last spring, when Maine held its state primary, Senator Muskie and the other leading Democrats had their answer to Maggie Smith: as a seasoned politician and a proven vote getter, Lucia Cormier was a leading candidate for the Senate nom ination; as a woman, she was a natural. No matter which of the ladies from Maine gets the toga, women permeate U.S. politics so thoroughly as to indicate that they have only begun...
...system, which features 15-man juries, permits the un-English verdict of "not proven"-meaning "we know you did it, but we haven't got enough to pin it on you." With justice, Scotsmen boast that their school system (which teaches the Scottish slant on British history) is superior to England's. The true Scot scorns such English institutions as cricket and fish and chips, preferring a hip-twisting Scottish reel and finnan haddie simmered in milk, which he compares to the finest French cuisine...
...these men carried burdens for three months, and now it is felt that others should take over." The old Cabinet was admittedly ill-trained and uninspiring, largely because Gursel bars from office any official who has ties to either the Democratic or Republican parties. But for the same reason, superior replacements are likely to be hard to find. General Gursel, like all Turkish army men, prides himself on being "apolitical"-and political adroitness seemed indeed what was lacking...
...result of a feverish crusade started by a 32-year-old architectural photographer named Richard Nickel, the case of the Garrick went before Cook County Superior Court. The ruling last week could well be a historic one for Americans concerned with saving landmarks. Judge Donald S. McKinlay went back to a 1954 U.S. Supreme Court decision that said in effect: the District of Columbia had the right to demolish a building if the building posed an esthetic threat. On the same principle, ruled Judge McKinlay, a city should have the right to preserve a building for esthetic reasons. The judge...