Word: aikens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...COLLECTED NOVELS OF CONRAD AIKEN. 575 pages. Holt, Rinehart & Winston...
Consider the case of Conrad Aiken. His credentials as a man of letters are impeccable-40-odd volumes of prose and poetry, a tour of duty as consultant in poetry at the Library of Congress, a slew of literary prizes (Pulitzer, Bollingen, the gold medal for poetry of the National Institute of Arts and Letters). He has been a fixture on the literary scene as long as any living American poet. But Aiken, now 74, wryly acknowledges that he is "a dubious horse in the Pegasus sweepstakes...
...committee consists of Democratic Senators Pastore of Rhode Island, Richard Russell of Georgia, Clinton P. Anderson of New Mexico, Albert Gore of Tennessee, Henry M. Jackson of Washington; Republican Senators Bourke Hickenlooper of Iowa, George Aiken of Vermont, Wallace F. Bennett of Utah, Carl Curtis of Nebraska; Democratic Representatives Chet Holifield of California, Melvin Price of Illinois, Wayne Aspinall of Colorado, Albert Thomas of Texas, Thomas G. Morris of New Mexico; Republican Representatives Craig Hosmer of California, William Bates of Massachusetts, Jack Westland of Washington and John B. Anderson of Illinois...
...WOLVES OF WILLOUGHBY CHASE, by Joan Aiken. Children may have to wait until their parents finish reading this sly and delightful melodrama in which ravening wolves are the least of the Victorian villains that beset our two young heroines...
...wipe out the ashtrays and for Rusk to glance swiftly at an other position paper before the arrival of the next foreign minister, Peru's Fer nando Schwalb Lopez. With Schwalb, Rusk talked economics and the Alliance for Progress. An hour later, with Ire land's Frank Aiken, the subject was the Congo. With Brazil's Joao Augusto de Aranjo Castro, the proposal for an atom-free zone in Latin America came up. Rusk said the U.S. would accept such an arrangement if it included Cuba and permitted U.S. transport of nuclear weapons through the Panama Canal...