Word: duke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bomb that was still missing, the searchers seemed prepared to continue the hunt indefinitely. Was there a chance its radioactive contents were leaking into Spain's coastal waters? With Spain's big tourist season about to begin, it was a horrifying thought. U.S. Ambassador Angier Biddle Duke's duty was clear. To prove the safety of Spanish shores, he made a date with Spain's Information and Tourism Minister to take a chilly 59° F. Mediterranean dip this week-with their wives and children-in the water off Palomares...
...education program for the state, in the Compact, and in the study group which he is now conducting at Duke University, the overriding question for Sanford is how to make the state government more effective. "A lot of people think the state is on the way out," he says, "for it has been an historical, not a constitutional, feeling since the Roosevelt days that the state is not effective in education; the attitude for years has been that all the wisdom lies in one place...
...radically beautiful church had risen beside the ruins of the old cathedral bombed out in 1940, "History has given us a chance to experiment, but we're not banging cymbals and drums." Maybe not then, but some distinctly unconventional sounds were issuing from Coventry last week as Duke Ellington, 66, staged the European premiere of his jazzy Concert of Sacred Music, swinging out on the steps of the chancel beneath Graham Sutherland's tapestry of Christ in Glory (TIME cover, Dec. 25, 1964). "There's a story of the man who accompanied his prayers by juggling because...
Sanford, now studying federal and state governments at Duke University on a Ford grant, pointed to North Carolina's own poverty program--one of the models for the Federal War on Poverty and to its state subsidized center for educational research as examples of state initiative...
...duke, professor and poet, Rexroth functioned magnificently in the sub-worlds of Chicago, Greenwich Village and the syndicalist meeting halls of Seattle, until he came at last to the big rock candy mountains of San Francisco. From the time he was an eagle scout in Toledo, Ohio-operating, he claims, from what must have been the only left-wing gangsterized troop in America-Rexroth's big German-American farm boy's face shone with the vocation of the radical outsider proud of belonging to people who have no belongings. Whether he was selling snake oil to farmers...