Word: firmed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With a barrage of decrees, Major General Johnson Aguiyi Ironsi's regime last week began clearing away the rubble of black Africa's bloodiest military coup. "Firm, honest and disciplined leadership" was what he promised a nationwide radio audience. More important, if less certain, was his pledge that "the federal military government will preserve Nigeria as one strong nation...
...qualifications." U.S. Chief Justice Earl Warren smiled down from the bench, and with that, Ted Sorensen, 39, a lawyer (University of Nebraska) who became John Kennedy's chief speechwriter, was admitted to practice before the Supreme Court. His memoirs behind him, Sorensen has joined the Manhattan law firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, which once had a partner named Adlai Stevenson...
...University of Illinois at Chicago Circle in the Art section, Jan. 7. The tribute to Architect Walter Netsch is richly merited. All of us at the university have been pleased with the concept of design and the imaginative approach to problem-solving that Mr. Netsch and the firm of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill gave to the requirements in constructing a major "commuter" campus within a limited site and the need for operational economy and efficiency...
Self-effacing to the extreme, the Secretary of State has nonetheless proved a consistently prudent yet firm profession al, has worked harder, traveled farther (540,945 miles by last week) and, before Congress at least, defended...
...fond of playing the "animal, vegetable, or mineral" game with history books. An animal is lively and generally fun, but it doesn't have much to do with the facts and tends to run away with itself. A vegetable book has firm factual roots that keep it from running around but at least it's alive. A mineral book is solid ground--sometimes rocky reading, but always right...