Word: courtney
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Marriages, children, friends, slices of moderately high life are scattered through the book, along with references to Luce's indifference to food and small talk, and his yearning to win at tennis and golf. Once, as Luce teed off against the Rev. John Courtney Murray and Emmet John Hughes, Murray remarked to Hughes: "You are looking at the only man I know who can will a golf ball 200 yards...
...Democratic Policy Council, a group organized to formulate party policies, has some recommendations. Says Courtney Evans, a council member who is a former assistant director of the FBI: "Some way must be found to maintain the integrity of the FBI, at the same time providing policy guidance and direction in security and intelligence investigations, particularly in areas where there is likely to be a legitimate difference between freedom for individual citizens and security for the Government itself...
...Courtney B. Cazden became the second tenured woman in the Graduate School of Education when the Board of Overseers last week approved her appointment to full professorship. The Ed School is 47 per cent female...
...British Naval Commander Anthony Courtney. A onetime chief of the Soviet section of naval intelligence, Courtney retired, began a successful business as a consultant on East-West trade, and won election as a Tory Member of Parliament. In Commons, Courtney seized on the dangers of Soviet spying as one of his big issues. That irritated the KGB. Before he came up for reelection, the KGB reached into its files and produced a 1961 photo showing Courtney in compromising positions with a comely, blonde, hazel-eyed Intourist guide named Zina, a "swallow" he had met on a business trip to Moscow...
...took over at Swarthmore just a few months after former president Courtney Smith died of a heart attack during a black students' sit-in. The main issue was black admissions and one of Cross's first acts was to carry through on the university's promise to increase black enrollment...