Word: ens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Jersey's gubernatorial election-yet the Democratic incumbent piled up the biggest plurality in the state's history. Lyndon Johnson, Hubert Humphrey and New York's Senator Robert Kennedy lined up behind Democrat Abe Beanie in New York City-yet in Lindsay's shadow their en comiums sounded as if they had come from the party manual. "Look at Hubert Humphrey," chortled House Republican Leader Gerry Ford. "He campaigned in three places-in New York, in Philadelphia and in Ohio. His batting average was zero. Even the Twins won three out of seven...
...Rorem is tall, dark, hand some and undoubtedly the best com poser of art songs now living. "I can put anything to music, including the en cyclopedia," he once remarked, with an engaging lack of diffidence. The New York City Opera and the Ford Foundation believed him, commissioned him to do an opera. Last week Rorem's opera, based on Strindberg's Miss Julie, had its premiere. The overall verdict: Rorem would have been better off with the encyclopedia - and the U.S. is still looking for its first major operatic composer...
...maintained advertising sales offices abroad. These branch offices-there are today 17 around the world -solicit and sell space in the six international editions of TIME (in which the ads differ but the editorial content is the same as at home), as well as LIFE International and LIFE en Espanol...
Odegaard added strong departments of genetics and nuclear engineering, strengthened Washington's already respected schools of fisheries, forestry and Far Eastern studies. This week a new $3,000,000 oceanographic vessel for the university is en route from Boston; later it will explore the bottom of the Bering Strait. Washington's medical school is now so respected that 75% of Harvard's 1964 medical graduates applied for internships in Seattle. Enrollment has grown to 25,000. Odegaard has raised admission standards for liberal-arts students and has sharply upgraded undergraduate instruction to catch up to strong graduate...
...long since concluded that New York is a vastly disappointing restaurant town, and the higher a restaurant's reputation the more demanding he seems to be. Said he of Voisin this year: "The egg en gelée was gross, the shrimp marseillaise was overcooked, although in an excellent spiced sauce, and the grilled sweetbreads Rose Marie tasted unpleasantly of smoke." The Colony, he says, can be worse. Best in the city, he insists, is Henri Soulé's Le Pavilion, followed by Joe Kennedy's favorite, La Caravelle. But the man from the Times...