Word: superiorities
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...settled the matter out of his petty-cash box if he chose. But Gordon Getty, 32, a real estate investor, composer, poet and the youngest of his four living sons, felt compelled to file what he called "a friendly suit" against the old man, asking San Francisco's Superior Court to award him $7,000,000 as his share of the stock dividends accumulated by a trust fund that J. Paul's mother, Sarah Getty, had established in 1934 for her son and grandchildren. Over the years, the trust's original capital...
...Groppi is more a messiah than a leader. To be even closer to them, the priest moved last July from his rectory to Freedom House, a residence and office he set up for the youth council. So "totally immersed" in the Negro's problems is he, says his superior, St. Boniface's Pastor Eugene Bleidorn, that Father Groppi is "a Negro with white skin." Adds Groppi himself: "I will picket with the Negro, I will go South with him, I will go to jail with him, and I will hang with him if it need...
...Legged Enemy." But for all Mao's guerrilla teachings, Chiang Kai-shek's superior Kuomintang forces drove the Reds out of populous South China, and thus began the legendary Long March-a year-long hegira of some 7,000 miles over seven mountain ranges to the remote fastness of Shensi province in the northwest. Lin commanded the vanguard of the 90,000 Red marchers, forging ahead personally on donkeyback in search of edible herbs and grasses. Riddled with illness and strafed by Kuomintang aircraft, Lin's van still managed to break through the ranks...
Frank Edwards, a sometime radio commentator, is perhaps the most fervently devout believer in UFOs, not as mere meteoric oddities or psychic phenomena but as the creations of technically superior beings from parts unknown. His evangelistic style is homiletic, catechetical and religious in tone (the promise of an unprecedented revelation to the merely human race has the strangest effect on the nonbeliever). At any rate, the mixture of science and religion is curious, as if Billy Sunday had undertaken a sermon on the subject of the binomial theorem...
...from the University, Odili is a potentially valuable proteégé of Chief Nanga who is really most at home in pidgin. As a student, Odili had disapproved of Chief Nanga for his demagoguery and his "ignorance," but it is hard for a young schoolteacher to feel superior to his old school-and-scoutmaster now that the wily old charmer has a house with seven bathrooms and an official Cadillac with chauffeur...