Word: alma
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Seventh Army in Germany in 1957, proved so capable an administrator that in two years he was picked for the high-powered job of Chief of Staff of NATO's Central Army Group in West Germany. In 1960 he returned to the U.S. as boss of his alma mater, the Staff College at Leavenworth. Three years later, Johnson was ordered to the Pentagon, became deputy chief of staff for military operations, a post in which he helped pave the way for the buildup...
Perhaps indeed! To a student who came here from Washington in the fall of 1962, it didn't seem possible that Kennedy was less popular anywhere in the country than he was at his alma mater. He had promised so much and delivered so little, and what he had delivered was disaster. On the night after Kennedy's speech on the Cuban crisis, Lowell Lee was packed with people, the majority of whom applauded when a professor snapped that the whole thing had been rigged up so a few more Democratic Congressmen could be elected. Then there was his slowness...
Cooke's first version of the symphony, which he estimates is about 85% pure Mahler, was played twice over the BBC in 1960, then banned by the composer's widow, the late Alma Mahler Gropius Werfel. Three years later, upon hearing a tape of the broadcast, Alma was "so moved" that she approved "performances in any part of the world...
...distinguish the piddlers from the real students, Hershey believes that it may be necessary to return to the system of national examinations and class ranking used during the Korean war. But he would rather see the colleges "clean their own stables." Although he is a trustee of his alma mater, Tri-State College, Hershey's philosophy of education was influenced more strongly by his early life on an Indiana farm and his long career in the army, than his days in the classroom...
...most famous son have such impassioned defenders as in New York City, which at last count boasted 858,601 citizens of Italian descent but only 36,794 Norwegian-Americans. Yale-educated Congressman John Lindsay Republican candidate for mayor, made it sound as if Columbia had been his alma mater all along. "Saying that Columbus did not discover America," declared Lindsay, "is as silly as saying DiMaggio doesn't know anything about baseball or that Toscanini and Caruso were not great musicians." Governor Nelson Rockefeller, whose son, Steven, has a Norwegian wife, at first voyaged rather bravely into the controversy...