Word: tiptop
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...evidence given in the novel, this judgment of mankind is accurate. The book's human beings- except for a few dolphinlike characters necessary to the plot-are consistently sub-cetaceous in intelligence, honor, aquatic ability and sexual inventiveness. The dolphins are tiptop in every department, as Robert Merle, a French writer of some past distinction, is at pains to demonstrate, taking the departments one by one. In fact, in the very long sections of the book justly given over to praise for the dolphins' character and accomplishments, only two bits of dolphin lore escape specific mention. The first...
...Miller Manufacturing (steel castings and forgings), Connecticut's Mal Tool (aerospace components) and Long Island's Unicord Inc. (musical instruments). Outside of G. & W., Bluhdorn and some other associates in the past two years have bought control of New York City's Ward Foods (TipTop bread) and the Bohack supermarket chain (196 stores). When acting for G. & W., Bluhdorn often uses stock instead of cash to buy out companies, shuns ailing firms. "We have no time to be doctors," he says. The deal for New Jersey Zinc will involve $150 million in cash and stock...
Anything short of tiptop performances might have been the ruination of the play. Diana Sands is a fiery, sexy shrew who puts plenty of lip on her English. Arms akimbo and eyes aglaze, Alan Alda flaps haplessly after every disaster like a commuter ignored at a bus stop. Director Arthur Storch keeps Pussycat yowling along, and if Playwright Manhoff does some comic counterfeiting, he also mints plenty of sound money lines ("I happen to be an intellectual. That means that I am not at the mercy of what I want...
...women of any age who have remained active, said Dr. White. To Mayor Samuel Resnic, who said he had not ridden for 45 years, Dr. White suggested: have a checkup first, then start cycling regularly, building up the time gradually-"and you'll soon be in tiptop shape." The Holyoke wheelers were disappointed in one respect. Dr. White usually opens a bicycle trail by riding around it himself. This time he made the trip by car. The explanation: he had an urgent appointment with a heart patient...
Married. Dinah Shore, 46, TV's tiptop thrush; and Maurice Fabian Smith, 41, building contractor; both for the second time; in Redlands, Calif., two days after her divorce from Actor George Montgomery became final...