Word: drews
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...officials figured the total by rounding off the counts of departing passengers compiled from subways, buses, autos and taxis. On its first Sunday, 569,500 passed the gates-a total that surpassed every one-day world's fair record ever set (New York's 1939-40 show drew 492,446 one day; the 1964-65 pulled 446,953 on its best-and last...
...such cases since Reconstruction, for example, Johnson won a peonage conviction against two Alabama planters who had paid Mississippi jailers to bind Negro prisoners over to them. In 1955 fate intervened with the death of the U.S. judge for Alabama's Middle District. Johnson drew up a modest resume, won the support of state G.O.P. leaders, met Ike in Washington and got the job one week past his 37th birthday...
...Yorkers to take a fresh view of the Met's treasures, he displayed some 600 of them, ranging from the silver portrait of a 4th century Sassanian king to Marie Antoinette's doghouse, under the title "In the Presence of Kings." The array drew 62,000 visitors to the museum on a recent Sunday. Last week Hoving demonstrated that showmanship leads to acquisitions...
...predictions Hathaway's Fidelio should have been a failure. That it was certainly not. Using the Bach Society Orchestra as a base, he managed to assemble many of the best instrumentalists at Harvard; for his chorus he drew heavily from the Glee Club and the Radcliffe Choral Society. It is a tribute to his musicians' intelligence and ability to sightread, and to his own assiduity and seriousness as a conductor, that they got through the music as well as they...
...Harvard Republican Club organized and ran the event, which drew a total of 200 delegates from some 15 campus YR groups...