Word: emerson
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Nominated last week as the next Air Force Chief of Staff, after years of public and Pentagon wondering if he would ever make the grade: General Curtis Emerson LeMay, 54, a bulky (5 ft. 10½ in., 185 lbs.), cigar-smoking Ohio State graduate* whose brusque personality and bluntly voiced military philosophy have often stirred more public notice than have his real and remarkable abilities...
...with the weaknesses of American policy in Asia, Africa and Latin America. There have also been some admirable studies of individual countries and areas, like James P. Coleman's work on Nigeria. Another approach is the general historical and political study of nationalism in the old colonial areas (Rupert Emerson's From Empire to Nation). A fourth and final technique emphasizes the problems and processes of economic development...
...home, where he ran up six Spanish doubles and two Spanish singles championships, handsome Andres Gimeno (pronounced Hee-may-no) is a national hero. In athletic Australia, where he beat Neale Fraser and Roy Emerson in late '58, Gimeno is regarded as an undesirable alien. In the U.S. he is only faintly remembered as the harder-hitting half of the unpronounceable Spanish team that won the 1960 National Indoor doubles championship by default (the other half: Manuel Santana).* But when Promoter Kramer offered Gimeno a pro contract last year, many tennis fans thought that Kramer's racquet...
These resolutions were adopted at the Cuba Protest Meeting, held in Emerson on April...
...modern choral music--patriotic pieces especially--and Session's Turn, O Libertad in particular. Complex accompaniment and dissonance cannot hide its dullness and essentially barber-shop harmonies. Such was not so with Elliot Forbes's madrigal Music whose harmonies seemed amazingly fresh and lacking in cliches. The madrigal form, Emerson's text and a modern spirit, surprisingly, did not conflict. John Crawford's two madrigals have a complete texture and greater richness; both had the indispensable virtue of good musical taste...