Word: edward
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Edward Shils, a professor of sociology at the University of Chicago and another member of the study group, said this feeling of individual worth, fostered by technology, has led men to make more aggressive demands on governments, at a time when the authority of governments is declining. The result is an increased "probability of public disorder...
...perfect candidate," wrote Harvard Professors Edward Banfield and James Wilson, "is of Jewish, Polish, Italian or Irish extraction and has the speech, dress, manners and the public virtues-honesty, impartiality and devotion for public interest-of the upper-class Anglo-Saxon...
...academic elegance is traceable to his schoolteacher parents in the Midlands, who provided him with a solid academic background. He performed brilliantly at Birmingham's King Edward's Grammar School and Cambridge's Trinity College. Classmates and buddies from his World War II army service remember Powell as a fearful grind who studied over holidays and insisted on wearing tie, jacket and Sam Browne belt during the hottest days in India. He has grown more relaxed in middle age, having traded the atheism of his schoolboy idol, Nietzsche, for High Anglicanism. He has also exchanged...
...time he was 18, Edward Leo McMahon Jr. had been a pitchman for eight years. He was the genuine article, too, peddling merchandise on the sidewalks: "Folks, I'm gonna show you the Morris Metric Slicer. Two dollars is the price on the box, but forget the two dollars. I'm talking about one dollar, and I'm throwing in the onion slicer and the juice extractor." When Ed talked, the folks listened. And when they listened, they usually bought...
...page report was the product of a two-year, $500,000 investigation sponsored by the Air Force and conducted by a team of University of Colorado scientists led by respected Physicist Edward Condon. It had been thoroughly reviewed and then approved by the prestigious National Academy of Sciences. Thus, when the Scientific-Study of Unidentified Flying Objects was finally made public last week, it spoke with authority. Its conclusions all but demolished the idea that earth has been visited by creatures from oth er planets. Despite a few remaining puzzles, there is no evidence, said the report, that UFOs...