Word: adamses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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-Charles Francis Adams
Fortunately for Adams, it was too late. The auctioneer's hammer had al ready fallen, and the painting was delivered in due time to its new owner. "I was confirmed of my opinion of its merit," noted the crusty diarist judiciously on Sept. 24. Posterity agrees with his evaluation...
Died. Albert John Luthuli, 69, Africa's first native Nobel laureate (for peace, in 1960), and one of its most articulate champions of racial equality; of head injuries when he was struck by a train; near Stanger, South Africa. A teacher at Natal's all-black Adams College...
As a member of the British Commonwealth, St. Kitts and Nevis want Britain to intervene and restore Anguilla to the federation, but Britain claims that the situation is a problem of "internal security and not a responsibility of Her Majesty's Government." As for Anguilla itself, the provisional government...
So wrote befuddled Bostonian Henry Adams about his first trip to Europe in 1858. Until recently, most Americans were hardly better prepared than Adams was to face the languages, customs and currencies of the countries they planned to visit. But more and more U.S. citizens today face the prospect of...