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...Marian settled close by the White House. (President John Adams was Henry's great-grandfather, John Quincy Adams his grandfather.) Under her 20-tapered chandelier, Marian gathered the famous but never the infamous. Hearing that Sarah Bernhardt, whose private life scandalized the Adamses, was about to embark on a U.S. tour, Marian fired off fair warning to her father in Massachusetts: "See to it that Boston snubs her off the stage." Marian's letters to papa were a Sunday ritual, and in them she re-created the Washington merry-go-round of her day with Pepysian verve...
Divorced from Hungarian Writer Josef Bard after four years of marriage, Dorothy returned to the U.S. in 1928 to embark on a new career: wife to Novelist Sinclair Lewis. As energetic a spouse as she was reporter, she gave up heavy reading for menu planning, bore Lewis a son, hosted his parties. But as Dorothy and "Red" drifted apart (they separated in 1937), she took on more and more work...
Having finished a parody of decent domesticity, "Hum" and "Lo" embark on a parody of incest that takes them across the continent. They restlessly traverse the neon-lit landscape of filling stations, diners, small towns, automobiles and asphalt -the motel tundras where, if one pays, checks out by noon and turns in the key, one can voyage to the end of night...
Declared Chief Western Delegate James B. Fisk, the lean and deliberate executive vice president of Bell Telephone Laboratories: "We embark, with every hope, on what can well be a historic mission-to lay the essential technical basis for the important decisions which lie ahead." To the Western scientists' surprise, Chief Soviet Delegate Yevgeny K. Fedorov, identified as a Soviet Sputnik specialist, spoke in the same vein. "It is not for us to decide the cessation of tests," he said. "This is up to the governments...
Second, school districts can and should embark upon adequate counselling programs, using as models some high schools in Westchester Country, N.Y., or Long Beach, Cal.--where comprehensive counselling programs have for years encouraged special interests and solved the particular problems of students with high intelligence and unique talents...