Word: birding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Remote Summit. Late last week, the President, Lady Bird and Daughter Luci waited in the darkness at the White House south portico as the Nixons drew up in a big white Continental on loan from the White House motor pool. Inside, Nixon and Johnson talked in the Oval Office for more than an hour and a half; it was their second encounter since Election Day. They discussed everything from housekeeping in the Executive Mansion to Viet Nam, the Middle East, and a possible summit meeting with the Russians before the President leaves office...
There have been solid performances by several individuals in the three weapons' classes. Peter Bird has been consistently strong in epee, winning the only two victories in that field against Concord and going undefeated against M.I.T. Patri Pugliese has been equally successful in sabres...
...simplicity and sensitivity of the poems for which he won the Pulitzer Prize in 1957, and the National Book Award for Things of This World. The quiet titles of the New Yorker poems. "In the Field" and "in a Churchyard," recall two other poems from 1947, "In a Bird Sanctuary" and "A Dutch Courtyard...
...defeat in last year's war. Each night new Arab heroes are born, fresh revenge is meted out to Israel, a portion of Arab pride is restored. Amid the breathless bulletins and the florid rhetoric of propaganda, there are the underground's customary coded messages: "M.H.: the bird is back in the cage"; "Attention Green Lion: the gift has been received...
Marion plans to use Burke Dial, Phil Rapaport, and Ted Bartel in the foil. Emil Godfrey, Pat Pugliese, and Robert Chew will fence in the sabre, and Jack Bird, Gilbert Castle, Eliot Hurwitz, and George Thomas will compete in the epee...