Word: eighting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have two masters," Col. R. H. Pell, Harvard's current Professor of Military Science, has said. "I'm proud of the fact that I am a part of Harvard, right along with the larger master I have been serving for twenty-eight years." But the long partnership of he two masters is an increasingly uneasy one, and the smaller master is beginning to feel the strain
Such worries have been reinforced by signs of strain in the world's monetary system. Eight hours after Treasury Secretary David Kennedy was sworn in last week, he talked down one source of uneasiness. In a statement approved by President Nixon, he ruled out any change in the official $35-per-oz. price of gold. "We see no need or reason for such action," he said...
...When Israeli commandos raided Bei rut's International Airport last month, eight of Middle East Airlines' 13 planes went up in flames. Despite this destruction, MEA did not really lose much during the raid - and in some ways is better off than before. Though a brand-new Boeing 707 jet was destroyed, the line also got rid of some aging Comets and other planes that it had been trying unsuccessfully to sell...
Manet's The Artist, though painted only eight years before his death, is a provocative contrast to the broadly stroked, flatly patterned pictures that any gallerygoer can identify across the room as a Manet. Marcellin Desboutin was a witty, talented engraver, and one of Manet's close friends. The uncharacteristically detailed features, the brooding eyes, perhaps reflect Manet's special affection for his model...
Hitting Paydirt. The seventh son in a farm family of eight boys and four girls, Glen began to play a guitar at the age of four, when his father through a Sears, Roebuck catalog sent for one priced at $5. He drew on whatever music was at hand: the hymns he sang in the choir at the Church of Christ, homely folk tunes, country pickin' that he heard at the county fair, and records on the radio-especially Hank Williams and Frank Sinatra. By the age of 14, he was proficient enough to say goodbye to school and begin...