Word: dillon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...payments deficit, and "Doves," who felt that stern restrictions would damage the nation. Johnson heeded the Doves, among them Commerce Secretary John Connor and President Donald C. Cook of American Electric Power Co., a prime Johnson adviser who will become Secretary of the Treasury this spring when Douglas Dillon leaves...
MERIWETHER LEWIS by Richard Dillon. 364 pages. Coward-McCann...
...this ambitious, absorbing biography, the odyssey is redacted with fidelity and vigor. As Author Dillon develops the narrative, Lewis evolves into a brilliant, noble and magnificently effective neurotic, one of the most admirable and tragic figures of the American past...
...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 he left an estate of $9.43½. To his country he left...
Harvard's basketball team, wearied by a long train ride to Princeton after their plane had been grounded by fog, suffered a 76-55 loss to the Tigers at Dillon Gym last night...