Word: half-dozen
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...drawn from one of the best novels of the loth and 20th centuries, T. H. White's The Once and Future King. And Arthur himself is arriving in the shape and voice of Wales's and the Old Vic's Richard Burton, who at 34 is numbered among the half-dozen great actors in the English-speaking world...
...Crimson will field virtually the same team it has used thus far this season. Mullin, Fitzgerald, and Ed Hamlin should all finish in the first half-dozen, although Fitzgerald has been somewhat off his stride this fall. Regular track captain Fred Howard will also race. Howard has decided to complete with the cross country team steadily...
What pained Nelson was the fact that Boston University divinity school promptly accepted Lawson, who expects to get his degree there this summer. "I feel a great sense of tragedy," said Nelson. "This happened just when we had reached prominence as one of the half-dozen best divinity schools in the U.S." His job was offered to Dean Walter J. Harrelson of the University of Chicago divinity school. If Harrelson accepts, it may be under certain conditions that might even include the readmission of Lawson and the retention of Nelson as a professor. Whatever the outcome. Chancellor Branscomb is adamant...
...Southeast Asia, an emblem with the gold initials SB on a dark-blue shield is as familiar as the U.S. dollar sign. It stands for the Shaw Brothers, sole owners of the largest show-business empire in Asia. Their chain of 120 moviehouses and ten amusement parks in a half-dozen countries draws tattooed headhunter warriors in Borneo, svelte Chinese beauties in Hong Kong, betel-chewing peasants in Cambodia, wisp-bearded mandarins in Viet Nam, combative Sikhs in Singapore. No one knows better than the SBs how to turn a profit from this varied audience. At a recent Singapore cocktail...
...stars and of depth. When it started its championship streak five years ago, the big name was that of Maurice Richard. This year Richard, at 38, is plainly near retirement. But his kid brother, Henri, 24, has become one of hockey's top forwards-and Montreal has a half-dozen other of the N.H.L.'s brighter stars...