Word: aberdeen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Army chief and his wife Dorothy, an Aberdeen, S. Dak., girl whom he married in 1935, moved into Quarters No. 1 at Fort Myer, the columned, red-brick Victorian house on Generals' Row that became the Chief of Staff's official residence soon after the post was created in 1903. The 66-year-old house boasts an elevator (installed by the Douglas MacArthurs), a magnificent view of Washington (thanks to Mamie Eisenhower, who cleared away trees and shrubbery blocking it), a barbecue pit (the Matthew Ridgways), and a hotel-size kitchen (the Lyman Lemnitzers...
...Shuman is about as chipper as any of his Aberdeen-Angus calves. He neither smokes nor drinks ("I'm not a teetotaler," he says, "I don't want the stimulation"), and strives mightily to refrain from cussing...
...large part of Shuman's weekend is spent looking over the 1,013-acre mixed farm (corn, wheat, hogs, Aberdeen-Angus beef cattle) that Shuman owns in partnership with his three older sons. Like father, like sons. The Shuman boys are hotly against government in agriculture. "I don't see why the Federal Government should support me," said Charles. "Dad wouldn't accept a green check-from the Government-and neither would we."† Weekend over, Mabel drives Charlie back to Mattoon on Monday morning in time to catch the 7:06 back...
Stewart will work first on the Gifford Lectures of the University of Aberdeen, Scotland, delivered by Nock in 1946 but still unpublished. He plans to edit the lectures, which deal with Hellenistic religion, and add a commentary supplementing the famed classicist's original ideas with later discoveries made largely by Nock himself...
...four school-assigned essays to a classmate for $4. Gordonstoun's Headmaster Robert Chew says there is "absolutely no truth" to the report. But the classmate did get the copybook and sold it for $20 to a Gordonstoun alumnus who did even better by selling it to an Aberdeen journalist for $280, who then joined forces with a press-agent named Terence Smith...