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...plot is fairly complex and farcical, and Yandell does a neat job of keeping the small confusions and flimsy coincidences straight. Both Vandervanes use him: Kitty to try and persuade her husband to leave Sylvia, Sir Roy to further the escapade. Uppermost (but never very elevated) in Yandel's mind is preserving his friend's musical reputation by preventing a performance of Elevations 9. Spreading butter on Sir Roy's bow only postpones the debacle a few minutes. Happily Yandell has small expectations...
Future security stands uppermost in both Brown's and Saunders's minds. "I will have to be protected if I sign." Saunders said. "If the team offered me a no-cut contract with fringe benefits such as graduate-school financing, there's no way I'm going to stay here...
...does well there, he'll go to the Nationals. That is uppermost in his mind, but still he insists that all he wants to accomplish is to help Harvard place above the other Ivy League teams in the tournament...
...along, Nixon had been far less concerned with foreign reaction to the Laos venture than with the response at home. Five days before the invasion, when the President and half a dozen top advisers met to discuss the go/no-go decision, the domestic impact was uppermost in Nixon's thoughts. The State Department was particularly concerned about rousing dormant peace groups...
Precisely that was uppermost in the minds of 4,000 delegates from across the nation who met in Washington last week for the once-in-a-decade Conference on Children. Among the proposals they urged on President Nixon were the establishment of a National Institute for the Family; universal daycare, health and early learning services in which parents would play a major role; the creation of a Cabinet-level Department of Family and Children; and an in dependent Office of Child Advocacy. There was also a lavish list of demands?though more modest than the one ten years ago?covering...