Word: famed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...congratulate you and your associates on your newly found fame and fortune, may you live and enjoy it for a hundred years or more. It truly is another important step in the progress...
...Philosophizing Wolf." Though he is one of the world's most eminent logicians, Bertie Russell has achieved ever wider cold war fame as one of its most illogical eminences. A wispy, white-maned aristocrat who, like a fictional intellectual once described by Novelist Aldous Huxley, resembles "an extinct saurian." Russell is a brooding, old-fashioned agnostic who for most of his life has been torn between his view that the human race is irredeemably wicked and his conviction that he can save it. At one time he was so critical of Communism that Soviet propaganda labeled him "a philosophizing...
...Chamber of Deputies, he was put in charge of the sputtering state oil monopoly. Unwilling to see this remnant of Fascism dismantled, he disobeyed government orders to liquidate its money-losing properties, instead secretly went on drilling, and in the Po Valley discovered a huge natural-gas field. With fame and profits from the cheaply abundant fuel for boom. Mattei pushed E.N.I. into oil lands in Africa and Asia, laid plans for pipelines in Switzerland and Austria, started refineries behind the Iron Curtain, bankrolled Italy's ruling Christian Democratic party, and became the most powerful man in Italy...
Saving Outcasts. When graft scandals broke in San Francisco in 1907, Rogers won national fame. He agreed to defend two top executives of a local streetcar company, accused of bribing city officials. Rogers' opponent in the case was the fiery Francis J. Heney, a friend of President Theodore Roosevelt. In the course of a tumultuous trial, someone shot at Rogers, barely missing. Someone else shot Heney in court and almost killed him. Weeks later, Heney reappeared with a hideous scar, only one eye, and plenty of public sympathy. But Rogers won his case by proving that some of Heney...
...King first gained national fame as one of the leaders in the Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycott of 1956. The Montgomery protest was significant in that it was one of the first demonstrations of Negro solidarity in the desegregation fight, and the then 27-year-old Martin Luther King became its symbol. As the movement's spokesman and philosopher, King brought to it the qualities which he himself embodied--the nonviolence of Gandhi, the compassion of Jesus, the courage of Socrates...