Word: edward
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Thursday the committee heard its first testimony from the other side of the SALT debate. Edward Rowny, a recently retired lieutenant general who was the Joint Chiefs' representative on the SALT II delegation for six years, denounced the accord for establishing "conditions which threaten our security for years to come." During the talks, said Rowny, "we gave concession after concession." Paul Nitze, who helped negotiate the SALT 1 accord, warned that the new treaty's provisions "one-sidedly favor the Soviet Union" and that the arguments for them were full of "fallacies and implausibilities...
...APOLLO XI reached the moon Nixon and Co. ended their first six months in office by celebrating not the landing of the Eagle but the drowning of Mary Jo Kopechne in Edward Kennedy's car at Chappaquidick the morning before. By the time "Tranquility Base here, the Eagle has landed" reached Houston, the White House had already dispatched Tony Ulasewicz to dig up all the dirt on the incident. When space lost its public appeal and propaganda value, most "supporters" dropped...
...years after he drove off a bridge into Chappaquiddick's Poucha Pond drowning Mary Jo Kopechne, the decade's second most controversial political figure, Edward M. Kennedy '54 is hoping that we will forgive, and preferably forget, again...
...program came to an end last week, Rassias said his pupils were midway between fluency and total ignorance of the language. Their ability to communicate got higher marks. The officers' Spanish grammar isn't perfect, and their vocabulary totals only some 1,000 words, but as Sergeant Edward Spinola, 39, explains: "I can communicate, where before I was totally lost." That is good enough for Transit Police Chief Sanford Garelik, who said last week that he was looking for funds for more Rassias-style training in languages besides Spanish that have become native to New York City-including...
...drying up. In Massachusetts last year, close to 350 recipients got a share of the state art council's $2.5 million budget, with the highest gift, a mere $45,000, going to the B.S.O. This year there are 264 requests for money from the same fund, but Governor Edward King, a Proposition 13 adherent, wants to trim the council's already inadequate budget by 15%. The private sector is unlikely to fill the gap. Whereas New York City's Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall get essential support from the rich corporations headquartered in the city, Boston...