Word: donald
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bernard Gersten signed up dancers for seven different programs designed to exhibit the breadth of American dance-modern, ethnic and ballet. They presented some of the nation's star dancers: New York City Ballet Principal Dancer Edward Villella, Tap Dancer Paul Draper and the ethnic dancers of the Donald McKayle company. Even Ruth St. Denis, the 85-year-old queen of American dance, was persuaded to make a rare appearance...
...liners; besides, it recently won the rich and controversial TFX fighter contract, and would be quite unlikely to bag two in a row from Washington. Douglas is preoccupied with its new short-range DC-9, for which it has only a disappointing 18 orders; in addition, President Donald Douglas Jr., 46, who has become the active manager of the company, is less daring than his father, Chairman Donald Douglas Sr., 71. As for McDonnell, its flinty Chairman James McDonnell, 64, would have liked the SST to satisfy his burning personal ambition to build a commercial jetliner. But his St. Louis...
...began with one of the best debutante parties of the year, given for pretty, blonde Fernanda Wanamaker Wetherill by her stepfather and mother, Mr. and Mrs. Donald Leas, at their estate. In all, some 800 of what Vogue likes to call The Beautiful People disported themselves amid pink marquees to the music of Lester Lanin, Mark (not Meyer) Davis and an 18-piece twist band. At about 6 a.m. the party broke up, but some 65 of the boys and girls chipped in $5 per couple to hire the twist band for three more hours...
Died. Guy Francis de Money Burgess, 52, Eton-produced British diplomat who, with his colleague Donald Maclean, was found to be a top Soviet spy after their sensational 1951 flight to Russia; of heart disease; in Moscow. A slovenly, hard-drinking homosexual, less effective at undercover work than the fastidious Maclean, Burgess turned left at Cambridge, passed official secrets while in the foreign service both from London and Washington. He split with Maclean in exile, avoided Russians and defiantly sported his old school tie, but it was left to Maclean to eulogize him, as a band blared the Internationale...
...manifesto is "a test of our discipleship," said the Most Rev. Donald Coggan, Archbishop of York. "Do we or do we not mean business? We must decide what is more important: a posh organ in the church, or literature in Africa, where the sands are running...