Word: famed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...instead of the steam bath of a Senate hearing, Yorty charged that he had been caught in "a trap" set by Bobby Kennedy as part of his "lavish campaign to build himself up and tear President Johnson down. He's trying to ride on his brother's fame and his father's fortune to the presidency. This headstrong young man has become very arrogant." Bobby, said Yorty, had "played the prosecutor," assisted by "a group of smirking, bright-eyed young men passing questions...
...SPORTS SPECTACULAR (CBS, 2:30-4 p.m.). Frank Gifford and Marathon Swimmer Marty Sinn are the commentators on this repeat of the Hall of Fame Swimming and Diving championships at Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Also on the schedule are highlights of the Cleveland Browns' 1965 N.F.L. season...
Recognition came late for Sculptor David Smith, and neither his manner, often truculent, nor his medium - gigantic welded iron and steel objects -did much to hasten his fame. Awarded a $1,000 prize at the 1961 Carnegie International, he refused the money, suggested that it be used by the museum to buy some art. "Sculpture has been a whore for many ages," he would...
Scandalized Scandinavians. While hanging on at Louisiana's tough Angola Penitentiary, Labat changed himself from a semiliterate hospital worker to something of a poet and painter. In 1963, Angola officials handed him a world fame of sorts by barring his correspondence with Mrs. Solveig Johanson, a Swedish housewife in Stockholm who had become interested in the case. One official claimed that Louisiana law forbade Negroes to correspond with whites. This was later revised by the statement that prison rules limited access to any prisoner on Death Row to his immediate family and his legal and spiritual counselors. The incident...
What pleases Stone most is that the Delhi embassy's fame seems to have lingered longest in the Middle East and Pakistan, where it has since won him a dozen commissions. "They want something they can identify with, not just a crate," says Stone. "The problem is to be inspired by their style and do a completely modern building...