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...Congress in 1962. Six years later he became the first Republican Senator from Florida since Reconstruction. As the staunchest supporter of President Nixon throughout last summer's hearings of the Senate Watergate Committee, of which he was a member, the telegenic Senator earned national attention and conservative acclaim. Last week Gurney, 60, garnered a less lustrous distinction: he was the first U.S. Senator in 50 years to be indicted while in office by a federal grand jury...
...career with a triumphant debut as Juliet at 19. Adelaide Neilson made her debut in the part at 17 and became the most popular Juliet of the latter half of the 19th century. And in our own century Phyllis Neilson-Terry started playing the role at 18, to wide acclaim...
...book details the odyssey of a Southern black who moves North in an attempt to find freedom and instead finds oppression rooted in the structure of American society. The book won the National Book Award and the National Newspaper Publishers Russwurm Award, as well as wide critical acclaim...
...plans, significantly scaling down the project, have won unanimous acclaim from local civic leaders. Even Councilor Francis H. Duehay '55, a long-time library opponent, praised the redesign as "quite good...
Still, the 10-year Kennedy quagmire has not kept Pei from progress on other fronts, from doing what he is supposed to do best: making cities a better place to live in. The prolific architect and his staff of 110 have won wide acclaim for creating or renovating buildings in almost every large American city, including his heavily-decorated Kipps Bay Plaza and Bedford-Stuveysant Superblock in New York and his Society Hill Towers in Philadelphia...