Word: edwin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Soon after midnight, the cabin door of a C-135 Stratolifter slammed shut behind Major General Edwin Burba, commander of the U.S. Army's "Hell on Wheels" 2nd Armored Division...
...speech by Rep. Edwin E. Willis originally scheduled for Friday has been cancelled. Rep. Willis was to speak at the Law School Forum on "The Future of the House Un-American Activities Committee...
...Ibis, a rare bronze variety of Threskiornis aethiopica, has been missed before but never for so long a time. American Airlines pilot Edwin Walter, who saw the bird winging westward over the Golden Gate as he was preparing to land, said "it looked happy though homesick." Walter took several photographs of it from a cockpit window...
...years of the 19th century were not abnormally fragile. Yet of Fields's list, Holmes, Emerson and Hawthorne are honored but widely unread; Harriet Beecher Stowe is a historical curiosity; the realist William Dean Howells is read chiefly by thesis writers; Longfellow and Whittier are snickered at; and Edwin P. Whipple, Henry Giles, John G. Saxe and a shelfful of others are wholly forgotten. Only Thoreau's reputation is still alive, and Thoreau is more often revered than read...
With little publicity and no fanfare, Edwin O. Reischauer, U.S. Ambassador to Japan, returned to the States at the end of July for the first time in more than two years. He spent a three-week vacation at his Belmont home, interrupted only by a hurried trip to Washington, and devoted much of his time to working on the manuscript of his new book. Work on it had been stalled since President Kennedy snatched Reischauer from his Harvard professorship of Japanese History in March, 1961, and made him Ambassador to Japan...