Word: donald
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Canceled Trip. The Nixon forces, braced for a rugged New Hampshire campaign, were at first disbelieving, then jubilant when they heard the bulletins. Nixon himself was at home preparing to take his children and his 14-year-old nephew, Donald Nixon, to a museum when the news came. He canceled the trip, stuck close to his radio, then went to work on a gracious statement. "Governor Rockefeller," he wrote, "has made an excellent impression in the states he has visited in the past few months. People throughout the nation have recognized him as a leader of national and international stature...
...when Dr. Lilly was stimulating a dolphin, the electrical apparatus broke down, but a tape recorder kept on running. When he played the tape, he heard his own voice saying, "three hundred twentythree" (the footage on the tape). Then from the dolphin came the same words in a quacking, Donald Ducklike voice, but unmistakable. They were followed by a creditable imitation of the buzz of a transformer and the rattle of a movie camera. The dolphin had associated all these sounds with the pleasure-giving stimulation, and was trying to trigger it again...
LIVING JAPAN (224 pp.) - Donald Keene-Doubleday...
...hara-kiri and kamikaze. Readers who suspect that there is more to Japan than this may find out precisely what by opening either of two handsome, informative, reliable and engagingly written books. Living Japan is a succinct introductory, from Zen Buddhism to transistorized radios, by a top U.S. scholar, Donald Keene, associate professor of Japanese at Columbia. Author Keene's book has the edge in the number and beauty of its photographs. But Meeting with Japan is steeped in deeper experience. From 1938 to 1943, Italian-born Anthropologist Fosco Maraini studied and taught in Japan. Two of his three...