Word: columbus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...varsity football captain for the coming fall, one of those he thanked was "the guy who recruited me." The College's director of sports information, Baaron B. Pittenger, suggested "invite" as a more suitable synonym, but the meaning was clear. "The guy who recruited me" was Walter Birge of Columbus, O., president of the Harvard Club of central and southeast Ohio and Harvard's most famous recruiter...
Perkins' talk came at the end of "Freedom March" down Columbus Ave., from Carter Playground in Roxbury to Parkman Bandstand on the Common...
...past well-wishers and autograph seekers in crowded hotel lobbies. Everywhere he spoke there were large and obviously enchanted crowds: 3,000 at a $25 box supper in Des Moines, 10,000 at a Detroit fund-raising rally, 1,100 at a $100-a-plate dinner in Columbus, where Young Republicans toasted him with a convention-style "demonstration," complete with victory banners such as "We'll do more...
Nixon saved his hardest words for the fund-raising dinner in Columbus. There he ripped into Kennedy's welfare programs as "worn out and warmed over," insisted that national security and a sound economy have greater priority. "Everyone is for good housing and good health and good education for all the American people," he said. "But in a period of maximum danger to our national security, can we really justify these programs of what I would call 'domestic affluence'? This is a time to put America's security and solvency first . . . That means keeping the expenditures...
Gagarin was named hero. But Gagarin was only an experimental object whom the scientists placed into a cabin for a flight around the world, not unlike what they did to dogs and monkeys. What a shame to compare him to Columbus. Columbus was the leader and explorer who sailed on his own with full responsibility for himself...