Word: famed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Football fame, scorned as it was by intellectuals, was the key that unlocked the sources of money that now pay for Notre Dame's increasing academic quality. The more scholarly graduates nowadays like to recall that Coach Rockne was also a magna cum laude graduate ('15), a brilliant chemistry student who worked with Father Julius Nieuwland, discoverer of the base for synthetic rubber. In 1952, Notre Dame honored Nieuwland with a first-rate science building that bears his name and the inscription. "All Things God Hath Made Are Good and Each of Them Serves Its Turn...
Paul Sandby (1725-1809) is commonly called "the father of British watercolor." While other artists favored foreign scenes, Sandby stuck close to home and thus won fame as the first artist "to introduce Englishmen to the beauties of their own country." In such paintings as Landscape, with Dragoons Galloping Along the Road, he keeps tight control of his watercolor, almost as if he were working in oil. Yet, though details are precisely recorded, the painting as a whole seems light and free. It was Sandby's gift that he could bathe the most ordinary scene in elegance...
...Nyerere kept his post as T.A.N.U.'s boss. It was a political maneuver that might, in fact, make Nyerere stronger than ever, for he installed as new Prime Minister his own close ally, Rashidi Kawawa, 32, onetime movie star whose long sideburns and curling eyelashes won him fame and top billing in Swahili films, including one titled Country Bumpkin. During his acting career, Kawawa found time for a clerk's job in Tanganyika's civil service; later he moved into the trade union movement, became its boss, then in 1957, shifted into politics as a member...
...After four years of haggling over suitable candidates, the Baseball Writers Association finally got around to electing two more players to baseball's Hall of Fame. The choices: fireballing Cleveland Pitcher Bob Feller, 43, and fiery Dodger Infielder Jackie Robinson-first Negro to crack the major leagues' color...
...With Dino's success, the whole family has since abandoned spaghetti for films. De Laurentiis served a lighthearted war, demobilized himself as soon as the Americans landed, and went back to making movies with black-market film. In 1953 he and Co-Producer Carlo Ponti (who achieved added fame by marrying Sophia Loren) broke into the U.S. market with a stinker called Ulysses. Dino got his first Oscar for La Strada, and went on to make a lot of overblown bad movies and several good movies, such as Nights of Cabiria, for which he got another Oscar...