Word: companion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Merrihue '56, a physicist at Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in Cambridge, was killed almost when he and a companion, Daniel slipped and dropped more than into Huntington Revine...
...painting was Emanuel Leutze's 1854 work, Washington Rallying the Troops at Monmouth, which since 1892 has lain rolled up in a redwood chest in the basement of Berkeley's Hearst Gymnasium for Women. Larger than its companion piece, the unforgettable 22-ft. by 12-ft. Washington Crossing the Delaware (1851), the oil portrays a bigger than life-size scene of a crucial moment. On a scorching June day in 1778, Major General Charles Lee had ordered the Continental army to retreat before the redcoats. Then, in the nick of time, Washington, accompanied by a cockaded Alexander Hamilton...
...September 1809, his affairs in confusion, the governor headed back to Washington. On the way, according to a traveling companion, he twice attempted suicide. Then one night, while Lewis was lodged in an isolated cabin on Tennessee's sinister Natchez Trace, two shots rang out. In the morning he was found dead. Suicide? Murder? Nobody knows, but Author Dillon thinks it was murder. When Lewis stopped for the night, he was carrying more than $100; in the morning his pockets contained 25?. He was buried in the woods, and his grave was all but forgotten. To his family...
...felt much abused. Feature writers portrayed it as a horrible example of suburban depravity in the wake of the trial of 19-year-old Michael V. Smith, who got drunk at a couple of debutante parties, drove a station wagon into a tree, and killed a 17-year-old companion. All the parent-hosts were haled into court under a controversial law against giving a drink to anyone under 21. Then, to make matters worse, a star prosecution witness at the trial, William Alpert, 20, was arrested for the possession of marijuana. But last week the beleaguered community...
...Institute and another $1,000,000 to Honolulu's Pacific Tropical Botanical Garden, but mainly devoted himself to his bachelor estate on Kauai, Hawaii, which he turned into perhaps the world's finest tropical garden with the help of Landscape Architect John Gregg, 64, his constant companion, whom he legally adopted as a son in 1959 after the repeal of an Illinois law preventing one adult from adopting another; in Lihue, Hawaii...