Word: famed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Much Doubt. But more pulled Kennedy back to West Virginia last week than economics and nostalgia. The President was specifically on hand to speak for veteran Democratic Representative Cleveland Bailey, 76, whose main claim to fame during nearly 20 years on the Hill is having once thrown a punch at Harlem's Representative Adam Clayton Powell (too soft to inflict permanent damage). Bailey is engaged in a desperate fight in a newly created district against popular Arch Alfred Moore, 39, the state's lone Republican in Congress. Few people thought that Kennedy's speech would affect...
Hans von Marees was one of the greatest German artists of his day, but neither in his lifetime nor in the 75 years since his death has the German public got to know him well. Other artists have long admired him; but the very fame of these admirers-men like Emil Nolde, Franz Marc and Max Beckmann-tended to dim his own. Last week the Bremen Kunsthalle was showing an exquisite exhibition of 116 drawings by the artist that Die Zeit calls "the dusty giant of the 19th century," and the story was still the same. The critics raved...
Both men seem to have transcended their past careers with this picture, finding in each other just the proper complement to their own failings. Resnais gained great fame by directing Hiroshima, Mon Amour. In it, he showed all sorts of technical ability with flashbacks and composition, but he never seemed able to integrate this talent with Marguerite Duras' rather somnolent script. Robbe-Grillet, on the other hand wrote novels that yearned for visual expression. In La Jalousie, for instance, he spends most of his time painting in the very smallest details of a banana plantation. Amid the minutiae, the author...
...other up to date on what he has been doing technically and what we've been doing technically. John's falling behind. We need him to help us on a lot of decisions.'' Responding to Interviewer Walter Cronkite's questioning about "the strain of fame," Schirra added: "We shouldn't have to pay the penalty of publicity and being show biz in the sense of going to various gala affairs. If it's a scientific meeting where our attendance can contribute to the program, where scientists and other engineers can get some firsthand...
...year-old dragster from Burlingame, Calif., showed up with an improbable creation called Infinity. Leasher and three partners pooled $12,000 to buy a surplus General Electric J47 jet engine complete with afterburner, the same power plant used in the F-86 Sabre jet of Korean war fame. The young dragster encased his engine in a 400-lb. aluminum body mounted on four wheels, added a pair of eight-foot parachutes for more braking power, and announced himself ready to beat the record. "If this thing ever takes off, it'll never come down," he said...