Word: autumns
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
During last autumn's presidential campaign, friends invited Walter Wolfgang Heller, chairman of the University of Minnesota's economics department to attend a Democratic dinner in honor of Candidate John F. Kennedy. Heller decided to stay home. "I wasn't feeling very well," explains Heller's wife Emily, "and we were both tired. We don't mix in politics anyway." But to Emily's surprise, Heller decided after dinner to go out after all and take a look at the man who might be the next President of the U.S. As Heller approached...
Kenneth Arrow, Stanford University: I would expect the economy to show some improvement by autumn or the end of the year. But there is a need for Government pump-priming - unbalancing the budget - until private investment overcomes its static condition...
...nobody A red sinking Autumn sun Took my name away...
...even that sort of absurdity is fading. The beats are gone, man, gone. The bongo drums in Denver's Exodus lie unused and uncared-for. In San Francisco, where it all started, even the Co-Existence Bagel Shop has been closed since autumn. And in Chicago, when a newspaper wanted a "typical" picture of two beats in a coffeehouse, reporters had to comb the city for hours before they found two sad, sandaled shades and dragged them to the Oxford to be shot...
...last week: Definitely slated to go to the Court of St. James's is Careerist David K. E. Bruce, who came within an ace of being named Secretary of State. Well-liked Llewellyn Thompson Jr. will remain in Moscow until the next congress of the Communist Party this autumn, when Veteran Kremlinologist Chip Bohlen is likely to undertake his second tour of duty as Ambassador to Russia. "Tommy" Thompson will then move to another key post, perhaps replacing able Ambassador Walter Dowling in Bonn...