Word: choses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Treasury. As Under Secretary for Monetary Affairs, Johnson chose Frederick L. Deming, 52, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, to replace Robert V. Roosa, who is joining a New York investment firm. Roosa will be a tough act to follow; he was a key figure in the intricate international finance operation in November that poured a desperately needed $3 billion loan into the British treasury to prop up the sagging pound. But Deming, an economist with a Ph.D. from St. Louis' Washington University and a career man in the Federal Reserve System for 23 years, was hand...
...final program will probably be the creation of Richard E. Neustadt, professor of government at Columbia University, who is almost certain to be appointed the Institute's first director. The question of a site has also been controversial. President Kennedy visited Cambridge in the spring of 1963 and chose a four acre area near the Business School for the Library...
...exactly where they were going. She writes of Lord Haw-Haw: "He should have recognized that the words he had been saying since 1927 were. 'Evil, be thou my good.' But he would not open his eyes or unstop his ears, and he stood fast and chose damnation." This makes HawHaw sound like Faust, when he was actually a miserable, shabby, bewildered, compulsive, witless and pathetic little fellow...
...week by the Kennedy family, Canton-born Architect Ieoh Ming Pei accepted a commission that any architect would have sold his ancestral home to get: designing the John F. Kennedy Memorial Library at Harvard. Says Painter William Walton, who, along with Jacqueline Kennedy, served on the selecting committee: "We chose Pei because his work is exciting and expressive, and we felt that he was on the verge of even greater work. He's every architect's second choice-next to themselves...
...restore ceremony to their services. And the big branches of Christianity more and more make common cause in facing the world; last week the Santa Fe Archdiocese announced that it would join the New Mexico Council of Churches-the first time that a Catholic church ever chose to affiliate with the Protestants and Orthodox in the federated National Council of Churches...