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...some federal agencies have hired outside historians at $50 a day. In proposing the project, however, the President has history on his side. Throughout time, kings, popes and potentates have decreed how they should be remembered. So why should Lyndon Johnson be denied? Vergil was financed by the Emperor Augustus while writing the Aeneid, and repaid his patron with lavish praise of Augustan virtues. Emperor Trajan was so taken by his triumphs, that to satisfy his pride he had 2,500 of his followers' names carved into a 137-ft.-high marble pillar in the Forum at Rome. Alas...
After eight years of teaching at Manhattan's Dalton School, Augustus Trowbridge felt frustrated in the face of his students' uniform brilliance, decided "there is no justification for the perpetuation of institutions that represent only one society." In 1966 he started his own Manhattan Country School, which has a 30% Negro and Puerto Rican enrollment, hopes to serve as "a private model for public education...
...Frank Knox Memorial Fellowship, the Frederick Sheldon Fellowship, the Sinclair Kennedy Fellowship, and the Augustus Clifford Tower Fellowship. All are foreign travel and study fellowships for graduated students...
...could say I got a unique face. I mean the only person who's got a face that even comes close to mine is Margaret Rutherford. That's my idol." Cheetah also uncovered the "first great mass producer of LSD," a University of Virginia drop-out named Augustus Owsley Stanley III. Operating in a way that might have made a financial success of Edgar Allan Poe, Owsley married a sensuous U.C.L.A. chemistry major and went into acid production in a laboratory near the Berkeley campus. He has turned out an estimated ten million pills, worth between...
...title is somewhat misleading. This book, the work of more than a dozen experts, tells and shows how Romans of all classes actually lived. Starting with the town plan of Augustus, it proceeds to the kitchen, the bath, the school, the soldier's bivouac, and on to the theater, the doctor's office, what people wore, and the brutal pleasures of the amphitheater. A substantial, workmanlike job of real interest...