Word: donald
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Orton's funeral (Halliwell was buried separately). Instead of organ requiems, the service was accompanied by a recording of Orton's favorite song, the Beatles' A Day in the Life. Playwright Harold Pinter read a few lines of poetry and Actor Donald Pleasence delivered an ode he composed himself-a reminder that in his plays Joe Orton had treated death as a grisly...
...precedents on the latter question are scanty at best. In more than two years as Assistant Attorney General in charge of antitrust, Donald...
...ultimatum Peking issued to London early last week was an unacceptable affront to sovereignty and protocol. It was both peremptory and insulting, addressing itself to "the British government's utterly hideous and ferocious features of fascist imperialism." Britain's man in Peking, Charge d'Affaires Donald Hopson, 52, a cool, much-decorated World War II commando offi cer, simply refused to send it to London. Peking, of course, broadcast the texts anyway. It demanded the release of 53 imprisoned Hong Kong Communists within 48 hours and the re opening of three outlawed Red tabloids in the troubled...
...captain's son, aground in a teaching job at Worcester Academy in 1908, when Robert E. Peary asked if he would like to join an Arctic expedition. Donald MacMillan not only went north that time-on the first successful journey to the Pole-but returned to the Arctic 35 times as leader of his own expeditions, mostly at the helm of his 80-ft. schooner Bowdoin, before he and his boat retired together in 1959. Author of several books, including the first Eskimo-English dictionary, MacMillan was a botanist and zoologist as well as the last of the dogsled...
...sell their 50% interest for $6.6 million to a group of Filipino businessmen and investors headed by Jose B. Fernandez, now 43 and the company's chairman. U.S.-educated (Fordham, Harvard Business School) and a member of a wealthy Manila family, Fernandez tapped as president a young American: Donald I. Marshall, 37, son of one of Lusteveco's prewar managers and a Lusteveco staffer who joined the company afer graduating from Stanford Business School...