Word: superior
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sure, a bit exhausting. Clouds of smoke and a few glazed stares from the 2500 guests greeted the main speaker, Superior Court Judge Francis J. Good, as he praised "one who rose from the ranks of the people--a friend of the man in the streets, member of a family famed for its industry, its sincerity, and its integrity." Good, like Sullivan, went to St. Paul's School and he noted with pleasure that "St. Paul's is still Walter's home base...
...Vosjoli, left ashen-faced from their sessions with Martel and reported home with the emphatic finding that Martel knew what he was talking about. But except for the arrest of Paques, SDECE took no steps that Washington could see to flush out the spies. De Vosjoli's superior at SDECE explained that France could not stand a major scandal at a time when it was just recovering from the Algerian war, but De Vosjoli suspected that "other, possibly sinister, forces were the real reason for the inaction." He leaves open to speculation whether it was inside work by Soviet...
...lecture system at Harvard gives Professors a chance to develop their ideas on some chosen topic at length and regularly over a period of time. It is far superior to the British, system, say, in which lectures are sporadic events to be made use of or not as the mood strikes one. Nevertheless, the course system at Harvard does not work very well largely because all the reading is assigned--as if it will be done simultaneously with the lectures. Another drawback is that the educational process is rounded off, in good European fashion, by a massive examination...
...were suspected of occasional "accommodations" with their Viet Cong counterparts, aimed at preserving the status quo and holding the fighting to a minimum. In this area Abrams sees notable improvement. Of ARVN's 149 maneuver battalions, he regards only nine as really unsatisfactory any longer; he rates 41 superior and the rest satisfactory. In the Delta, the new corps commander, General Nguyen Due Thang, has mounted nearly 40 company and multicompany sweeps since he took over less than two months...
...make an educated guess that the judge will dismiss those cases which do not involve the sale of obscenity to minors," Avatar's lawyer, Harvey A. Silverglate said yesterday after a brief session in Middlesex Superior Court. Throughout the ten-day trial, the judge has expressed primary concern with the circumstances surrounding sales to minors and testimonies about the effect of obscenity on minors...