Word: brightest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...golf's new leader, Palmer is also the brightest star of a new generation of professionals?a generation that seems likely to dominate the game for the next decade or more. By nature, professional golf has always been a nerve-shaking test of the individual, who must face and face alone the task of knocking a stationary little white ball into a stationary little round hole, with his livelihood depending on a true stroke...
...consideration to seniors at 100 top secondary schools, but admission is something else. Not long ago, Andover sent 75% of its boys to Harvard, Yale and Princeton; last year it squeezed in only 43%, and sent the rest to 44 other colleges across the land. Yet Andover offers its brightest students a wider range of college-equivalent courses under the Advanced Placement program...
...making fertilizer for Indonesia's rice terraces, 2) an electric power plant for East Java. The loans, largest to be granted by the bank to Indonesia in ten years, were announced just five weeks before Soviet Premier Khrushchev's scheduled good-will visit to Djakarta. Flashing his brightest smile, President Sukarno assured housewives on a Djakarta street corner that the U.S. loans, and Soviet and Red Chinese pledges of "unlimited credit," were "proof of Indonesia's increasing solvency...
Married. Adolph Green, 44, co-author (with Betty Comden) of some of Broadway's brightest hits (Two on the Aisle, Wonderful Town); and Phyllis Newman, 25, stage and screen actress; he for the third time, she for the first; in Manhattan...
...some 2,300 miles a week by plane and train, dictating memos and reading reports all the way. He usually works seven days a week and well into the night, breaking off for a frequent tennis match or bridge game. Spencer Love figures that work is fun, and the brightest textile era looms ahead. One sign: the "casual living" trend-which means brief shorts, old blue jeans and no stockings-is giving way to the consumers' desire to "trade up" to more fashionable dress and home decoration...