Word: chapter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...American Revolution had barely recovered from the oblique rebuffs of Jacqueline Kennedy when they were flat-out repudiated by an almost one time First Lady, Elizabeth Stevenson Ives, 64, sister of the U.S.'s U.N. Ambassador. Opting out some 50 years after she first joined the Illinois chapter named for Grandmother Letitia Green Stevenson (wife of U.S. Vice President Adlai Ewing Stevenson and the D.A.R.'s only four-time President-General). "Buffie" Ives charged that "a growing number of the official policies of the organization are wholly out of line with the policies of the U.S. as formulated...
...message of Thoreau has not been forgotten; it survives in the struggle to preserve areas of great natural beauty from the inroads of industry and land developers. The latest chapter in this struggle is the attempt of the citizens of Indiana to save the last remnant of the Indiana Dunes. The Dunes, a four and a half mile stretch of waterfront bordering on Lake Michigan, contains some of the world's most beautiful beaches and offers the best available recreational space for the seven million people who live in the industrial and metropolitan complex centered in Chicago. Their destruction would...
...Numbers. Evtushenko has powerful friends at court, notably Voronov, a member of Pravda's editorial board, and, through him, Izvestia Editor Alexis Adzhubei, Khrushchev's son-in-law. Another influential supporter is 71-year-old Novelist Ilya Ehrenburg, whose 1954 novel, The Thaw, gave history's chapter heading to destalinization. In 1960 Evtushenko rated a passport, has subsequently wandered widely in Western Europe, Africa and elsewhere abroad. On two trips to Cuba he gathered material for a movie scenario, visited the house where Hemingway wrote...
Conservative chiefs blamed the times, not themselves. Said Tory Party Chairman Iain Macleod: "We're not as a nation confident of our future. We've not as a nation been ready to face the reappraisal that must follow the closing of the chapter of imperial power." Others had a simpler answer. Suggested the solidly Tory Sunday Times: "The country has become fatigued with the same faces expounding the same measures in the same cliches. The Conservative Party is losing its grip on middle-class loyalties, and it bores the public to a pulverizing degree...
From the partnership arose the New Nixon, the Old one plus Ike's conception of what a President ought to be. That conception runs all through the chapter on the Third Crisis (Eisenhower's heart attack); the chief Executive ought to be a man immensely impressed, almost overwhelmed, with the dignity and solemnity of his office. More essentially, he runs the government as the Republican Party has throughout this century hoped it to be run, as the benign head of a Cabinet system that determines fundamental policy. There are no messy, squabbling, White House staffs. The President, like Mr. Nixon...