Word: autumn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Dutch-French parentage and a staunch romantic idealizer of nature, was born on Staten Island and trained as an architect in New York City. He was not an artist of wide-ranging scope, but he excelled at one uniquely American subject: the blazing radiance of Yankee countryside in autumn. Cropsey's magnum opus, Autumn on the Hudson River, now in the National Gallery, was completed in 1860, while the artist was living in London, and commemorated a view near West Point overlooking Storm King Mountain. The panorama includes hunters, grazing sheep, and sailboats, but its real subject...
Prospects for this autumn's entering class are even darker. One study predicts if all those eligible are indeed drafted, only 105 men and 242 women will be able to enroll in the school, in contrast to a usual entering class of about 933 students...
...autumn of 1965 that North Viet Nam for the first time committed the soldiers of its regular army to battle in the war in South Viet Nam. Since that bloody debut in the la Drang Valley, which cost Hanoi 2,000 men, North Vietnamese troops have marched southward in such numbers that there are now 67,000 below the DMZ-more than half the Communists' main force and doing far more than half of the enemy's fighting in South Viet Nam. Initially, the allies knew very little about their new antagonists beyond the mute evidence...
Sconcing Up. The CBS team followed no set itinerary, simply turned on its cameras when and where there was something interesting to shoot. As the autumn foliage turned, Kuralt appeared on Walter Cronkite's Evening News with a two-minute film report from a leaf-strewn country road in Vermont ("It is death that causes this blinding show of color, but it is a fierce and flaming death"). While rolling through Ohio in November, Kuralt noticed that every town in the area except Harrisburg (pop: 360) was plastered with campaign posters. This led to an account of a town...
Although the General Court authorized such a takeover and decreed it effective July 1968, it neglected to set any taxes to pay the costs of welfare. Last autumn a tax bill was introduced but Speaker Davoren and the rest of the Democratic leadership weren't too interested in raising taxes and the chances of passing an adequate financing bill were meager. In other words, the Welfare Re-Organization scheme was strictly a paper...