Word: elderly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last Fall, after Dean Ford and Dean John P. Elder of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences rejected the requests, the Federation began a quiet campaign to enlist the aid and sympathies of tenured faculty members at Harvard...
Proud to Go. They were tears of triumph. By the time Arthur was eight, he was fascinated by tennis. On a salary of $2,400 a year, the elder Ashe was hard pressed to afford $30 rackets. Life became a good deal easier after Arthur met R. Walter Johnson, a Negro doctor from Lynchburg, Va., whose avocation was encouraging promising young Negro tennis players. Years before, Dr. Johnson had befriended a girl from Harlem named Althea Gibson and started her climb to two Wimbledon and two Forest Hills titles. Impressed by Arthur's raw talent, Dr. Johnson started...
...seventh congressional district Democratic race, John D. Elder, assistant dean of the Divinity School, lost by a 3-1 landslide to President Kennedy's Harvard roommate and longtime incumbent Torbert H. MacDonald...
...insurance adjuster who picked up extra cash by giving electric-organ lessons on the side, the heavy-handed elder McLain was a semipro shortstop in his youth. He started Denny on his lessons early?both at the keyboard and on the diamond. Denny had trouble deciding which he liked best, the organ or baseball. "He'd be having a game in the park across the street," his mother remembers, "and he'd call Time!' and run into the house and play a couple of songs on the organ. Everybody would have to wait for him, and he'd play...
...circumcision rite would take place at a nearby encampment of Samburu warriors. Rousing his men at 4 a.m., he led them on foot through several miles of country overrun with predators. The crew arrived in time to catch the Samburus reeling into a catatonic frenzy. Then the tribal elder drew his knife. The cameraman closed in so tight that he got blood on his camera. And Bill Holden, who, as one Wolper man put it, had played it all along like "the essential Hemingway man," admitted that suddenly he grew "weak in the knees." Later, the chief...