Word: blair
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...trouble began in 1952, says Harry Truman, when he summoned Governor Adlai Stevenson of Illinois to Blair House and offered to support him for the Democratic presidential nomination. Adlai just could not make up his mind. Months later, Truman gave up in disgust and switched to Vice President Alben Barkley. Then Adlai called and asked: "Would you object if I agreed to run?" At that, says Truman, "I blew up. I talked to him in language I think he had never heard before...
...Bruce Blair, 324th in the class, scored 711 and 658 on the tests, is the school's best discus thrower, a reserve on the football team, and one of the leads in the school opera...
Which boy would Princeton accept? All of them were topnotch candidates, but Princeton chose one. The hairsplitting decision: Bruce Blair, admitted on the strength of his general well-rounded record and strong aptitude-test scores. Ohle and Hatcher were undismayed. They both got into Brown, their first choice on the basis of a spring trip to it and Princeton. "A party school" was the way Hatcher saw Princeton. "I am willing to sacrifice Princeton's better name for what I think will be a better education...
...whom so much of the survival of the free world depends." De Gaulle seemed almost relieved when the welcome was over, when he was safely in the presidential limousine, rolling smoothly past the kids with their Easter outfits and their box Brownies, past the fluttering Tricolors?and on to Blair House under a sun as bright as the Côte d'Azur...
...Greensboro. N.C., 45 students were arrested on trespass charges for refusing to leave the lunch counter at an S. H. Kress & Co. five-and-dime. Among them: Ezell Blair Jr., 18, leader of the original sit-in incident...