Word: firmnesses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...archetypal moneybags-but hardly typical delegate-at either convention is Delaware Republican Reynolds du Pont, 50, one of the clan's richest members. After M.I.T., he had a go at the family firm, but quietly dropped out. Du Pont likes politics and yachts. He was elected state senator in 1958. In both 1964 and 1966, he managed syndicates of similarly bankrolled yachtsmen who tried unsuccessfully to win the right to defend the America's Cup with the twelve-meter American Eagle. This summer, though he is leader of the Republican-controlled state senate and also chairman...
Kennedy's "final, firm" decision will probably succeed in discouraging further pressure on him to run in the cause of party unity and loyalty. But the fourth and last Kennedy brother was hardly renouncing the family legacy of active political leadership. At 36, he has many years to build his career and a safe Senate seat as a base...
Liberal supporters of the appointments were not altogether unhappy with a temporary delay that would let memories dull and tempers cool. Fortas was on firm ground in refusing to answer questions about past rulings and issues that might be brought before the court in the future, but it still looked odd for a judge, in effect, to "take the Fifth." Though he was open and candid about his relations with the President, even his friends were dismayed by the extent to which Justice Fortas had dou bled as White House adviser. Nor was Fortas' case helped by comments from...
...poses these questions? Concerned architects, builders and planners do, and one of them presses the points with special urgency. He is Nathaniel Alexander Owings, a latter-day Jeremiah who is also a devout optimist, and who is the senior partner in America's most forceful and prestigious architectural firm. At 65, Owings is the remaining founder, the central O, in S.O.M.?Skidmore, Owings & Merrill...
High Quality. The first big break for the firm was the commission to build Oak Ridge, Tenn., the A-bomb town that was constructed in complete secrecy, eventually grew to a population of 75,000. In its wake came jobs to design a hotel, airbases in Morocco, and three towns in Okinawa. Having achieved a reputation for bigness, S.O.M. earned a name for high-quality design with Manhattan's Lever House. Lever has since been copied so often?and so badly?that it has lost much of its impact. But 16 years ago, it astonished and delighted...