Word: famed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...although he was 47 before he came to the U.S. as a political refugee from Italy, he was as American as Plymouth Rock. Native artists protested bitterly when he was commissioned to decorate the U.S. Capitol in 1855, but Brumidi answered: "I have no longer any desire for fame or fortune. My one ambition and daily prayer is that I may live long enough to make beautiful the Capitol of the one country where there is liberty...
Unexploited Fame. The orchestras are clamoring for increased subsidies from city and national governments, which this season will give the London Symphony, the London Philharmonic and the New Philharmonia each a meager $72,000 v. the Berlin Philharmonic's annual subsidy of $1,400,000. Meanwhile, the three recipients have agreed to coordinate their schedules, thus avoiding the program overlapping and duplications that have hurt all of them...
...fame. In the U.N.'s .19 years of existence, no other nation had pulled out. There were those who thought it good riddance. But others pleaded earnestly with the stubborn leader to think twice. Japan's Premier Eisaku Sato, for instance, is said to have sent Sukarno a personal letter recalling the tragic path Japan followed, which led to Pearl Harbor, after it had been the first to abandon the League of Nations...
...turn of the century paid $1,645,000 to buy Macy's, a thriving store that had been founded in 1858 by a onetime Yankee whaler named Rowland Hussey Macy. Straus's grandfather Isidor was a legendary merchant who started Macy's on its road to fame, later went down with the Titanic rather than get into a lifeboat while women and children were still aboard. Jack's father, Jesse Isidor, spread Macy's out from Newark to Toledo before he became Franklin Roosevelt's first Ambassador to France. Jack himself was practically born...
There is a tide in the affairs of men which, taken at the flood in 1964, led on to fame for Lyndon Baines Johnson...