Word: superior
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Heap o' Lovin'. In Los Angeles, Frank Sherman, 320 Ibs., and his wife Bernice, 250 lbs.. were forbidden by superior court to adopt a child until they reduce...
...prove it, an eight-jet B-52G lifted off from Florida's Eglin Air Force Base last week with a 43-ft. Hound Dog slung under each wing. Air Force Captain Jay L. McDonald, 36, piloted the bomber over Cincinnati, Lake Superior, Hudson Bay and to the North Pole; then he wheeled it back all the way to Florida and unleashed one of the Hound Dogs. Still fully operative after the rigors of a combat-type, 10,800-mile, 22-hour plane flight, the missile streaked off on a northern course at close to Mach 2 speed. Then...
...juvenile delinquency. The schools are actually better than before desegregation, said Hansen, because the best resources of the two races have been united. Washington's job now is making the schools even better: "The nation's capital ought to symbolize a national dedication to the principle of superior public education for every child. There are many miles to go before we reach this goal...
Credit for much of the excitement belongs to Director Ralph (Doctor in the House) Thomas, who keeps Hearts pounding along at an unholy pace and coaches a magnificent all-in-the-face performance out of Lilli Palmer, who plays the mother superior. But Scenarist Presnell is obviously the man in charge. In 116 minutes of sheer artifice, he never once misses a melodramatic trick...
...Superior Valet. First and greatest of the dandies, of course, was George Bryan Brummell. The son of a well-to-do bureaucrat (he confounded criticism of his birth by claiming that "my father was a very superior valet, and kept his place all his life"), Beau Brummell in his teens became the friend of the fat, feckless Prince of Wales. By dressing with unheard-of care and severity-he used only two colors, blue for his coat and buff for his waistcoat and trousers-and by developing a haughty silence that could strike like a thunderclap, Brummell made himself...