Word: esteeming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...winner of the $51,000 1962 Peace Prize.* The award did not stay the critics. Norway's conservative Morgenbladet called it a "slap in the face" to such responsible test ban proponents as Macmillan and Kennedy. The New York Herald Tribune held that the prize's esteem had slipped through association with "a placarding peacenik." As for Pauling, who got the news at his Big Sur, Calif., retreat, he remembered that the test ban had that morning gone into effect. "I thought," said he quietly, "that it was a nice day for the committee to make the announcement...
Died. Rosa Raisa, 70, Russian-born U.S. soprano who created the role of Turandot when Puccini's opera premiered at La Scala, reigned as a top American diva throughout the 1920s, when, backed by Utility King Samuel Insull and directed by Mary Garden, the Chicago Opera enjoyed international esteem; after a long illness; in Los Angeles...
Victories in those primaries would surely enhance Rocky's chances. But, at his present status of esteem, he is almost certainly whistling in the dark if he thinks that primary wins in those two carefully selected states will get him the Republican Party's 1964 presidential nomination. What he really needs is a sweep of almost all the states that hold presidential primaries. And if he doesn't enter...
...this dinner deductible?)." After laughter, and Hope, the Rev. Henry Pitney Van Dusen, president of the Union Theological Seminary, closed the program on the note that had begun it: "As we give thanks to those of every age, and especially our own who have merited and won the esteem and plaudits of their fellow men, infect us afresh with some measure of true greatness, vision and wisdom, fortitude and devotion for the enlargement of learning, for the vindication of right, for the betterment of society and the healing of the nation, that even in our day a fairer ordering...
...fiscal discipline. With a rare talent for understanding politics as well as economics, he was a master of compromise-and a stickler for principle. When France's franc was faltering, he told the imperious Charles de Gaulle: "Mon général, you spoke about restoring the esteem of France. I do not think there will ever be esteem for a country that has a bad currency." When he died of a heart attack at 69 in London last week, after seven years as the managing director of the International Monetary Fund. Per Jacobs-son was acknowledged...