Word: edwin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Minstrels, who were organized by Edwin P. Christy in 1842 and were the most famous minstrel show in the country for almost two decades...
...Edwin P. Christy has been long forgotten by all but a few devotees of the early minstrels. Not so the name of one of his proteges, Stephen Collins Foster, some of whose best-loved ballads were popularized by Christy. If the New Christy Minstrels can develop a smash hit like Oh, Susannah or Old Folks at Home, both of which were first presented to the American public by E. P. Christy's minstrel troupe, they will deserve to rank with their illustrious predecessors...
...such efforts and make a few suggestions for further progress. But by far the most serious talks would revolve around ways to check the subversive activities of Communist Cuba. The specific U.S. aim-to be pushed by Secretary of State Dean Rusk, Assistant Secretary for Inter-American Affairs Edwin Martin and Alliance for Progress Coordinator Teodoro Moscoso-is to cut the travel line to Cuba. At present, almost any Latin American can travel to Mexico on a regular passport, pick up special papers there to fly to Havana, then return home as a trained Red agent...
...Edwin O. Reischauer has resigned as professor of Japanese History to continue in his post as United States Ambassador to Japan...
...scramble for sales is so rough that two of the top ten companies that originally began building full-scale computers dropped out, and the eight survivors carry on chiefly by offsetting huge losses on computers with profits from other divisions. Says RCA's Vice President for Computer Marketing Edwin McCollister: "In such a rat race, you have to be terribly lucky and terribly smart, or you have got to have a lot of money. This is a battle of the giants...