Word: custodians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...directly in charge of administering the Federal Government's education programs is Gardner's Commissioner of Education, Francis Keppel, 49, a dark, slight (5 ft. 10 in., 152 lbs.) intense bolt of activity. In three short years in Washington, Keppel has changed the Office of Education from custodian of highly forgettable statistics to the nation's most energetic nerve center of academic ferment...
...BLESS YOU, MR. ROSEWATER by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. 217 pages. Holt, Rinehart & Winston. $4.95. "God damn it," says Eliot Rosewater, custodian of what was once the 14th largest fortune in the U.S. ($87,472,033.61), "you've got to be kind." He is that almost archetypical American figure, the do-gooding sad millionaire, and he embellishes restrooms with melancholy graffiti: "If you would be unloved and forgotten, be reasonable." His heart smolders with love for the unlovable-volunteer fire men, science-fiction writers, the entire population of Rosewater County, Ind., his ancestral seat. To them, he disburses much money...
...suddenly, after 40 years, it all adds up," began the ad for the Herald Tribune Sunday magazine last week. "Whispering, inconspicuous-formal, efficient-but precisely the perfect qualifications for a museum custodian, an undertaker, a mortuary scientist. Thirteen years ago, upon the death of Harold Ross, precisely that difficult task befell William Shawn: to be the museum curator, the mummifier, the preserver-in-amber, the smiling embalmer-for Harold Ross's New Yorker magazine...
Among those signing the historians' statement were Frank B. Freidel Jr., professor of History, and Clifford K. Shipton '26, Custodian of University Archives...
...Army and Navy ROTC have no plans for conversion to a two year course, although this option will be open to them when the bill is signed. Capt. Edward A. Rodgers, professor of Naval Science and Naval Property Custodian, indicated that his department preferred the more comprehensive four-year course, which enables it to graduate an ensign immediately ready for service...