Word: everly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...slowed under Laird. He is inevitably one of the most influential men in the Cabinet, both because of the importance of his department and because of Nixon's respect for his abilities. Gaylord Nelson recalls Nixon's once telling him: "Mel is one of the ablest men I've ever seen in government." Unlike some Cabinet officers, Laird has ready
...Soviet Union will start preliminary discussions that will lead to one of the most auspicious developments in more than two decades of the cold war: strategic arms limitation talks, already known by the odd acronym SALT. The aim of SALT is to slow down the ever more costly investment by both superpowers in nuclear weaponry that is increasingly sophisticated and deadly...
...Caribbean produced a homicidal harridan with the deceptively gentle name of Camille. Camille visited on the Southeastern U.S. wind, rain, and floods of such unexpected scale that Dr. Robert Simpson, head of the National Hurricane Center in Miami, called it "the greatest storm of any kind that has ever affected this nation, by any yardstick you want to measure with...
...similar benefits, and this one netted $14,000 for the Aspen Music School Scholarship Fund. Unfortunately, Benny lamented, not all patrons are kind enough to suspend their critical faculties. "In Philadelphia, a woman stood up and exclaimed, 'My God, he's lost his ear.' Ever since then, they've called me the Van Gogh of the violin...
...ways has rejected the traditional values and goals of the U.S. Thousands of young people, who had previously thought of themselves as part of an isolated minority, experienced the euphoric sense of discovering that they are, as the saying goes, what's happening. Adults were made more aware than ever before that the children of the welfare state and the atom bomb do indeed march to the beat of a different drummer, as well as to the tune of an electric guitarist. The spontaneous community of youth that was created at Bethel was the stuff of which legends are made...