Word: chosen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Winship has chosen a political man like himself -- a mellow dex-radical named Charlie Whipple--to head the editorial staff. As an undergraduate at Harvard in the '30's, Whipple was a card-carrying Communist and was arrested picketing Sears, Roebuck. After working his way from office boy to reporter on the Globe,he spent two years as a guild organizer before returning to the paper. (He no longer agrees with the guild and is not a member, but he remembers that he "gave it may all in those days...
...local primaries are to choose delegates to the state convention which will in turn choose the national delegation for Chicago The majority of state delegates have already been chosen, but in 30 towns McCarthy forces have put up rival slates
...Olympic Committee named its twelve man basketball team yesterday. Collegians picked were Jo Jo White of Kansas, Ken Spain of Houston, Bill Hosket of Ohio State, and Charles Scott of North Carolina. No player on the All-American first team was chosen. Both Calvin Murphy and Pete Maravich, the nation's leading scorers were cut from the squad. Sophomores Dan Issel of Kentucky and Rick Mount of Purdue were chosen as alternates. The rest of the team consists of NAIA, Junior College, AAU, and Armed Service All-Stars...
...foundations, it is hard-pressed for the scholarship funds it needs to retain its racial mix. Half the students get financial aid in meeting the tuition, which runs from $1,050 to $1,700 a year. Already 500 applicants are competing for 25 openings next year. They will be chosen mainly on the basis of highly subjective interviews. "It's like having a tray of beads," says Associate Director Ruth Cooke. "You pick out those with a certain sparkle...
...demonstrate the validity of the movements, the show's organizer, Curator William S. Rubin, 40, eschewed the gaudy sensationalism favored in the heyday of Dada. Instead, he has let the precise craftsmanship and fertile inventiveness of his chosen artists speak for themselves. The exhibit is sedately mounted in a series of small, serene galleries, with Marcel Duchamp's proto-pop Fresh Widow (a miniature French window with a head cold) respectfully enshrined in a Plexiglas case. Dali's minuscule (as small as 7 in. by 5½ in.) Krafft-Ebing fantasies glow like 15th century Van Eycks...