Word: clark
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week after graduation ('30), he married Philadelphia Socialite Mary Todhunter Clark (sniffed a Main Line matron: "A young New York man is marrying into the Clark family"). Wedding present from the groom's parents: a year's trip around the world. Armed with letters of introduction to government officials and Standard Oil executives, Nelson and "Tod" Rockefeller journeyed from Europe to India to the Far East, spent most of their honeymoon discussing world problems with Prime Ministers and potentates...
Making the trip for the Crimson were ex-captain Dale Junta '58, Larry Sears '58, and captain-elect Ned Weld '59; joining them from Yale were Tom Freiberg, Gene Scott, and Jon Clark. The varsity's Tim Gallwey '60 went along as an alternate...
Speaking at the inauguration of Clark Kerr as President of the University of California, Pusey implored educators not to let what he called "practical concerns" force them to forget that "the greatest intellectual achievements and discoveries of man" come from scholarly research...
...best efforts to the next and most important extension of legal justice: creating conditions for peace through developing the rule of law among nations. But, under the eye of Chief Justice Earl Warren and three other Supreme Court Justices (Charles E. Whittaker, William J. Brennan Jr. and Tom C. Clark), the necessarily long-range study of world law had to compete for urgent present attention with painful problems of the law of the land-specifically in the issue of school integration...
...make any substantial savings from being President," said Herbert Clark Hoover, noting with approval that Dwight Eisenhower had signed a bill creating an annual $25,000 pension for ex-Presidents. "My situation differs from other, and probably future, former Presidents," explained the 31st U.S. President. "America provided me with an education, including a profession [mining engineer], I practiced that profession in years when there was no income tax or only a small amount. I was able to save a competence.* I have considered that I have a great debt to my country for the opportunities it has given me. Therefore...