Word: choses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kennedy made a rousing pitch for his medicare program in a five-minute talk to the National Council of Senior Citizens meeting in Washington. He also chose the occasion to criticize indirectly Ways and Means Committee Chairman Wilbur Mills, whose committee has been bottling up medicare. "I am certain that if members of the House and Senate have a chance to vote on the bill it will pass in this Congress," said Kennedy. Since Mills also is a key figure in Kennedy's tax-cut plans, the criticism seemed curiously timed...
Looking to her own, Harvard chose for distinction within her Faculty Sir Hamilton Gibb, the Arabist and University Professor who heads the Center for Middle Eastern Studies (Letters); the retired historian of America Arthur M. Schlesinger, Sr. (Letters); Harvey Brooks, physicist and Dean of the Division of Engineering and Applied Physics (Science); and Augustus Thorndike '19, surgeon at the Medical School (honorary...
...record number of Kentucky voters turned out for last week's Democratic primary, chose Breathitt by more than 60,000 votes (309,377 to Chandler's 247,661). Breathitt, a former state representative, state commissioner of personnel, and state public service commissioner, will face Republican Louie B. Nunn, 39, in November. Nunn is a Glasgow attorney who managed the successful 1956 U.S. Senate campaigns of Thruston Morton and John Sherman Cooper but, like Breathitt, has never before run for state office...
...result was disaster. Louis chose a daughter of the Prince de Condé, whose family ran to madness as some families run to fat. Condé had a habit of barking convulsively-though at court he usually managed to stuff his mouth with a silk drapery when he felt such an attack coming...
...Japan and China were on the verge of war and hardly in the mood for poetry. But the great Greek Poet-Novelist Nikos Kazantzakis chose that year to make a trip to the Orient. There his poetic values came under heavy bombardment. In this transparently autobiographical novel, as slender in plot as it is rich in philosophy, Kazantzakis records the intellectual combat...