Word: 82nd
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Pericles of Putney/ The Voltaire of Vermont/ He'll blush at titles like that/ But aptness they do not want." The man so honored by the maimed meter of Senator Edward Brooke last week was his Senate colleague, George Aiken of Vermont. It was a combination birthday (his 82nd) and farewell party given by former Texas Congressman Frank Ikard for the retiring dean of the U.S. Senate. Aiken admirers donned casual and Western clothes and gathered for an evening of corn on the cob and some country music. Among the guests: Senate Republican Leader Hugh Scott (in a patchwork...
Haile Selassie, who celebrates his 82nd birthday later this month, continued at his normal pace last week in spite of the events around him. Precisely at nine each morning the Emperor was driven in his red Mercedes one mile from Jubilee Palace to the Grand Palace to put in what an aide described as "his customary day of work." Politically, however, the Emperor has become "as toothless as those old lions that guard his palaces," as one Western diplomat in Addis Ababa rudely...
...like a gardener," said Joan Miró some years ago in one of his infrequent interviews. He was alluding to his habit of steady work, moving from ceramics to painting, from sculpture to lithography, as one might turn from picking the lettuces to watering the celery. Today, in his 82nd year, he continues to do so, ensconced in the enormous white studio his friend and fellow Catalan, the architect José Luis Sert, built for him on the island of Mallorca in 1956. Mird lives near by, among his peas, vines and carobs, in a house cluttered by found objects...
...simply domestic action. By any name, it is a very tentative experiment, essentially a pilot project, but one that so far has gone remarkably well. Since the project's first action teams entered Hoke and Anson counties this January, Special Forces men and various units of the 82nd Airborne Division stationed at Fort Bragg have been quietly engaged there, and more recently in South Carolina and Montana. Their mission may well lead to a new role for the Berets in the Army...
...evening, after many had been there more than twelve hours. There was little water and no toilets to speak of Army trucks with pepper gas propellers circled the wire fence; occasionally-just to keep in practice I guess-lobbing gas canisters into the crowd. And, of course, the 82nd Airborne next door in the Stadium...