Word: albert
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...with Grace Kelly, although she was there as Princess Grace of Monaco. Also present were Cinema Bluebloods Gregory Peck and Cary Grant, who joined 1,600 others in Los Angeles to honor Sinatra as Variety Clubs International Humanitarian of the Year. Past winners-talk about high society-have included Albert Schweitzer, George Washington Carver, Jonas Salk and Winston Churchill. Accepting the award from his onetime costar, Sinatra was far from humble. "To Princess Grace and her royal crown," he joked, whisky in hand, "and to my Crown Royal...
...Albert E. Freeman Mount Holly...
Sartre expounded his ideas in nine plays, four novels, five major philosophical works, innumerable lectures, and essays written for Les Temps Modernes, the magazine he helped found in 1945. Among its contributors was another action-oriented writer, Albert Camus, who subsequently broke with Sartre in a bitter dispute over the nature of Stalinism, which Camus deplored. Sartre led demonstrations, fired off protests and manned almost every political barricade raised by the left. Ironically, his most conspicuous disciples-the young, the bitter and the cynical-did little or nothing and understood Sartre least. Had he not proclaimed life absurd, reality nauseating...
...short, people today ask things from capitalism that no system can deliver. They confuse hope with promise. When everyone begins demanding more, the Inevitable result is a madder scramble for a nation's limited output and a bidding up of prices. Says Albert T. Sommers, chief economist of the Conference Board, a leading business research group: "The failure of our political system to contain the growth of social demands within limits tolerable to the free market is the essential first cause of inflation...
Wilson, whose efforts on behalf of the blind were recognized last year when he won the prestigious Albert Lasker Special Public Service Award, has a powerful ally for his crusade. The World Health Organization has launched a drive to eliminate preventable blindness by the year 2000. In the meantime, Wilson plans to continue, as the title of his autobiography puts it, Travelling Blind, to give others the gift of sight...