Word: 63rd
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...63rd International Livestock Exposition in Chicago's pungent Union Stockyards, a gentleman farmer from Poughquag, N.Y., named Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr., 48, took home a raft of ribbons. His polled (hornless) Hereford cattle, part of a herd of 300 raised on his 1,100-acre ranch 25 miles south of Hyde Park, grabbed off ten prizes, including a first and second place award. A manager runs the place, but Roosevelt, who bought Clove Creek Farms twelve years ago, spends most of his summers there and keeps in touch from his Washington law offices the rest of the year...
...Japanese items, e.g., candlesticks. Says she: "They were probably cheaper at Lord & Taylor's than we could have gotten them for in Japan." The Built-in Look. The problem for Author-Editor (Doubleday) Margaret Cousins was how to set up a four-room apartment on East 63rd Street in such a way that she could live with her multitude of books and some favorite furnishings saved from the big Westchester home that she sold. Decorator William Pahlmann (see below) built storage walls wherever he could find the space, gave the study-guest-room the famous Pahlmann tent treatment...
...characteristically dissatisfied: she had not had enough rehearsal time to make movement and symbolism jell. At 66, tiny (5 ft. 3 in.) Martha Graham still works a ten-hour day. coaxing and bullying her dancers into shape. At her School of Contemporary Dance on Manhattan's East 63rd St., she has eight teachers to help her with some 200 pupils, but it is Graham's own fiercely compelling personality that produces the most lasting impressions. Often she will break off an exercise, recalls a former student, "to quote a poet or philosopher if she thinks it will make...
...hospital after being downed by a prostate gland infection (see MEDICINE); Mississippi's segregating Democratic Senator James O. Eastland, 55, laid up in Maryland's Bethesda Naval Hospital with a stubborn case of influenza; West Germany's Minister of the Economy Ludwig Erhard, who celebrated his 63rd birthday getting congratulated in bed while recovering from pneumonia contracted on his recent trip to Cairo...