Word: paramountly
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...further opened the way for the Orleans Parish School Board to claim $1,262,000 in funds that had been ordered withheld by the Louisiana legislature; the ruling was immediately appealed to the Supreme Court, where hopefully it will receive top priority on the calendar as a matter of "paramount public importance." During the week, no less than 700 officials, including Governor Jimmie Davis, were federally enjoined against interfering with integration...
...paramount problem for the new Administration, Mrs. Roosevelt observed, is Cuban situation and, for that matter, entire Latin American area. "It is defectly understandable why the Cubans hostile," she said, "for we have suped a government which clearly signi oppression to the people...
...Blues (Paramount), the first movie made by Elvis Presley since his release from the U.S. Army (TIME, March 14), might be expected to answer one of the less pressing questions confronting the U.S. public: Did the Army make a man of him? Maybe so, but it sure didn't make him an actor...
...World of Suzie Wong (Ray Stark; Paramount). The prostitute is the muse of the movies. When business is bad, she is invoked by producers who hope that commercial sex will bring the customers back in slavering hordes. This fall, what with the special distraction of politics and the usual competition of new television shows, movie business has been sluggish. Reaction: a demi-epidemic of pictures about prostitution, the most severe of recent years. Now showing in the U.S.: Never on Sunday, Butterfield 8, Girl of the Night, Port of Desire, Rosemary. And last week Suzie Wong, the biggest (it cost...
...years ago, Taylor noted, the people of the United States seized on Communism as the most important problem threatening the country. with the containment of the Soviet Union as the paramount goal, Americans began to preach a counter- of superior materialism...