Word: alberts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...school student on a senior-class trip to the capital. He laid wreaths at Mount Vernon and the Tomb of the Unknowns, was briefed on outer space by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, lunched in the Pentagon with Defense Secretary Neil McElroy, discovered a portrait of his grandfather Albert I at the Smithsonian Institution, impressed National Gallery of Art Director John Walker by correctly judging the relative age of two Byzantine Madonnas. At a White House state dinner, the King met many old friends of the Belgians, including Herbert Hoover, 1915-19 chairman of the Commission for Relief...
...sunny afternoon in San Francisco. Shirley O'Neill and Albert Kogler, 18-year-old freshmen at San Francisco State College, went for a swim off Baker's Beach, near the Golden Gate Bridge...
Shirley reached Albert and seized his hand, "but when I pulled, I could see that his arm was just hanging by a thread." She slipped her arm around him and began to swim for the beach. When she was near enough, a fisherman threw her a line. After they were on the sand, Shirley, a Roman Catholic, scooped up some sea water and let it run over the head of her friend (who had never been baptized and belonged to no specific faith). "I baptize thee in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost,"* said Shirley...
Just before Albert Kogler lapsed into unconsciousness, he whispered: "I love God, and I love my mother and I love my father. Oh God, help me." Two hours later, in the Presidio's Letterman General Hospital, he died...
...With the results of the poll, we feel a compulsion to press for an extension on Friday evenings," Albert L. Jacobs, Jr. '61, chairman of the Council Committee on Parietal Hours, stated yesterday. He indicated that the polls would be forwarded to the House Masters "as an indictor of student feeling on the matter...