Word: come
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...visiting Houston's Astro-World, playgoing in New York and gallery-hopping in Washington. This month she nipped off to Newport for a weekend of yachting with Socialite Topsy Taylor and other friends. But such activity for Mrs. Robb, who expects her first child in October, will come to a screeching halt. So says L.B.J. By paternal/presidential command, Lynda has been told she must stop traveling in September...
...1950s, about the time when his The Organization Man was published, Whyte watched with horrified wonder as his home county in Pennsylvania's lovely Brandywine Valley was ruined by heedless real estate development. He decided he should learn more about land use and conservation. He has since be come an expert on the subject. He helped to draft conservation programs for Connecticut, California and New York, also served on President Johnson's task force on natural beauty...
...USIA is equally unhappy. Expo 70 will be the first world's fair in Asia, and the congressional cutback will cause considerable loss of U.S. prestige. Last week architects and interior designers fought against deadline odds to come up with alternative plans for a new exhibit that will cost approximately $10 million. At the same time, a Soviet delegation dedicated the construction site of the $20 million Russian pavilion. In solitary splendor, it will soar 300 ft. high, just to the north of where its U.S. counterpart would have stood...
...biggest quarter-horse race of all is the annual Ail-American Futurity at Ruidoso Downs, N. Mex. Come Labor Day, some 10,000 bona fide and drugstore cowboys-along with doctors, lawyers and oil-rich Indian chiefs-will turn out to see the tenth running of the 400-yard event billed as the "World's Richest Horse Race." Prize money for this year's Futurity is $615,000, nearly four times the size of the purse offered at the Kentucky Derby...
...other questions were cultural, covering (among other things) yachting jargon and French expressionist painting. "Medical schools have been judging black applicants on an equal basis with whites in an effort to be fair," says Harris, "but we are going to have to recognize differences because black students have not come up in the same cultural environment...