Word: denison
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With due ceremony, the Denison, Texas, school board decided to rename the local high school in honor of Dwight David Eisenhower, 74, who was born in that little two-story frame house near the tracks. Would Ike attend? He'd be delighted. So everything was arranged, until some townspeople started to grumble. Why, they sniffed, that Eisenhower boy lived here only three months before the family moved up to Abilene. And hadn't one of the papers said he was "born in Denison by accident"? The school board backed off, sheepishly offered to name, well, the school auditorium...
...dimpled, freshly scrubbed good looks, neon smile and a refreshingly unaffected manner-is precisely what makes him the most promising, fastest-rising graduate of the rock 'n' roll generation. Son of a Baptist minister, Davidson was raised in White Plains, N.Y., came to Manhattan fresh out of Denison University, in quick succession won a supporting role in the musical Foxy, a weekly singing job on CBS-TV's late The Entertainers, and last week a new exclusive five-year contract with ABC. Davidson has an avid following among the young marrieds, says squarely: "I try to project...
Working president of the association will be Arizona Lawyer Denison Kitchel, who managed Goldwater's 1964 presidential campaign. Said Kitchel: "We're hoping for a grass-roots movement-not 50,000 or so people who are getting a newsletter, but 400,000 to 500,000 persons who may contribute from $2,000,000 to $2,500,000. This is not a game of peanuts...
...Michigan. Yet Slippery Rock's 2,300 students were dead serious about supporting easygoing Acting President John Edwards, 47, for the empty top job; 1,300 kids signed a petition favoring him. Instead, the trustees chose Dr. Robert S. Carter, the businesslike chairman of the education department at Denison University in Granville, Ohio...
...second Harvard professor has declared he supports Senator Barry Goldwater, according to Denison Kitchel, the Senator's campaign manager...