Word: dwight
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...their wives last week. Invited into the family rooms-which until a few years ago were almost as private as the inner sanctum of the Winter Palace in Lhasa-most visitors boggled. A few noted subtle changes. A portrait of Eleanor Roosevelt has been replaced by one of Dwight Eisenhower; Woodrow Wilson, a hero of the President (though a Democrat), has succeeded Lyndon Johnson. "All those damn Indians," as one rubbernecker inelegantly described George Catlin's incomparable frontier paintings, have been banished from the upstairs corridor. Pieces from the White House vermeil collection have replaced Lady Bird Johnson...
...limited ar eas. Consequently, Dwight Eisen hower barred production of the Zeus, but directed the Pentagon to pursue efforts to develop a bet ter system...
...effort came to total disaster at the famous June 1965 White House Festival of the Arts. Incensed by then about the Viet Nam war and always snobbishly intolerant of the presidential manner, a number of intellectuals noisily stayed away. Among those who did come, one guest-New York Critic Dwight Macdonald-cheekily circulated an anti-Johnson petition at the gathering. Another, John Hersey, chose to read pointed excerpts from his book Hiroshima despite fierce White House displeasure ("The President and I," said Mrs. Johnson, "do not want this man to come here and read these passages...
Cornell's Ken Dryden was unbeatable in the ECAC finals, and he managed to blank Harvard's explosive line. Surprisingly, the second line of Jack Turco, Chip Otness, and Dwight Ware--the team's lowest scoring regular forwards--picked up the slack by teaming for Harvard's two scores. This line does not have the stickhandling finesse of the other two trios, but its scrappy forechecking style may upset Denver's powerful offense...
Chip Otness raced the length of the ice to beat a surprised Cornell defense to the puck, and then tipped the puck to Dwight Ware. Ware centered it to Turco in front of the crease, and he flipped it over Dryden for the score...