Word: dominicans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Williamson said he is "happy to have generated so much interest in the course." He said that he was not surprised by the critique, but called it "ironic" that he had discussed many of the points it made--particularly those concerning United States involvement in the Dominican Republic--in a critical lecture yesterday...
Political infighting over the secretary generalship has been ugly and high-pressured, often resorting to strong-arm political threats. Just last Thursday one of Ritter's partisans in the secretariat, Luis Raul Betances, a Dominican, was fired after another angry Dominican delegates reported that Raul promised to have him removed if he did not change his vote from Falcon to Ritter...
...Colorado-born veteran of Guadalcanal, Tarawa and Saipan, where he won the Navy Cross and picked up a load of Japanese shrapnel that still causes him to limp at the end of a ten-mile hike. Known as "Tommy Two-Star" behind his back, Tompkins served in the Dominican Republic during the 1965 crisis before becoming commander of the Marines' Parris Island boot camp in June, 1966. When Marine Corps Chief of Staff Lieut. General Henry Buse called from Washington to ask Tompkins how soon he could leave for Viet Nam, the new 3rd Marine commander replied: "Tomorrow...
...also a sample of the kind of dress that has made debonair, soft-spoken Oscar de La Renta, 34, the most talked-about and envied new young designer. Born in the Dominican Republic ("Most of my family were diplomats; my father was in insurance"), Oscar opted for art, switched" to fashion in Paris, where he designed for Lanvin before coming to the U.S. to work with Elizabeth Arden. On his own for only two years, in September he picked up his first Coty American Fashion Critics Award ("Winnie") as the best U.S. designer...
...middle years, and these are now upon us in America, and it should be with a sense of expectation rather than dread that we greet them. I will argue further that properly used, this could be a time of great expectation. Some years ago the French Dominican, Father Bruckberger declared in the sensitive translation of Gouveneur Paulding that, "Either America is the hope of the world, or it is nothing." I believe that still to be so, and further that that hope is better grounded today than ever before for the very reason that we are being forced...