Word: 30th
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Long, 68, the son of the legendary populist Senator Huey Long, was elected to the Senate in 1948, one day shy of his 30th birthday. But he was not shy about anything when he arrived on the Hill. Ignoring the tradition that new Senators should listen and learn from their elders, he made his first speech * in defense of the filibuster, and he rose to speak no fewer than 469 times in his freshman year. Throughout his career, he would use the filibuster time and again in efforts to block civil rights legislation...
With the approach of the 30th anniversary of the Hungarian revolution, 122 East Europeans last month signed a declaration praising the uprising, denouncing Soviet intervention and calling for democracy. Two generations after the liberation of Europe, tyranny remains the condition of its eastern half. But the fact that 122 souls in four countries felt secure enough to declare so publicly indicates something has changed...
...another over the decades, in need of an adequate and permanent home in which to display the increasing number of diverse, sophisticated and sometimes monumental creations of the country's craftsmen and -women. This week the roving comes to an end when the museum, which is celebrating its 30th anniversary, opens its sleek and spacious new quarters across the street from the Museum of Modern Art in New York City...
Having won the Nobel Prize, Herschbach didn't sit back on his laurels last week. He immediately decided to use his $95,000 to set up a fund for young artists and musicians. Even at Harvard not many professors win the Nobel Prize--Herschbach is the 30th to do so--but like the students in his classrooms, the College community can learn from his example...
...guess they just got me confused with my husband," she said after the press conference Professor Herschbach held yesterday after learning he had become Harvard's 30th Nobel laureate...