Word: awaiting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This weekend, Cornell, a bit disappointed, comes to Harvard Stadium seeking satisfaction, while others must await another day. Ah yes, the picks...
...answers to such questions about historic personages, along with other more or less fascinating oddments of Americana, now await tourists and trivia enthusiasts at Washington's new National Portrait Gallery. For its opening exhibit, called "This New Man: A Discourse in Portraits," the gallery assembled 173 likenesses of figures from American history (see color pages). Though the gallery already owns some 500 pictures, it reached outside its own store and borrowed about three-quarters of the portraits now on show. Paintings, busts, daguerreotypes, cartoons, and even occasional photographs are arranged in rooms that were liberally draped with flags...
...Karel Ancerl, who has been named musical director of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra for its next three seasons, escaped across the border in his family's Mercedes-Benz 250 SL. In Austria, many have loaded up their boxy Skodas for sightseeing tours of the Alps while they await developments in Prague. In London and Paris, large groups of students who had planned to return from vacations and summer jobs to their schools at home were vying furiously for scholarships to stay abroad for the fall term. "There are so many beautiful things to see here," explained Milan, a bearded...
Four months after her husband's assassination, Ethel Kennedy has settled back into the family's Hickory Hill estate in McLean, Va., to await the birth" of her eleventh child, expected around Thanksgiving. Meanwhile, she keeps busy on new plans to build a nondenominational chapel in memory of Robert Kennedy at Waterville Valley, N.H., where the family spent its last ski vacation together on Washington's Birthday. The $80,000 to $100,000 needed for the chapel, which will go up on a plateau looking out at one of the Senator's favorite ski slopes, will...
...position of endorsing repressive police measures. In the end, he took the same tack that he had taken on both Viet Nam and the appointment of Abe Fortas as Chief Justice. The whole matter, he pronounced, was simply too important for partisan politics. Judgment should await the results of an investigation by the President's commission on violence: "I think that political figures should not make partisan comments from the sidelines...