Word: formerly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...present along with their subjects. Jazz Pianist Thelonious Monk was on hand to renew his friendship with Artist Boris Chaliapin. His portrait, Monk admitted, pleased him "more now than when I first saw it." HUD Secretary George Romney joined Senators Javits and Fulbright, along with CIA Director Richard Helms, former Defense Secretary Clark Clifford, the city's mayor, Walter Washington, and a roster of other notable guests...
There is a reason why former Nazis could easily become active in the Communistic government of Eastern Germany...
Bruce Tulloh, the former British Olympic distance runner, is panting across the plains of Oklahoma in an attempt to run from Los Angeles to New York in a record 66 days. Four of his countrymen are pushing their dog sleds toward Spitsbergen, Norway, in the last days of a 16-month, 2,000-mile trek across the Arctic. This summer, eight men from East Africa will try to follow up their successful ascent of Mount Kilimanjaro (elevation: 19,340 ft.) by climbing Mount Everest (29,028 ft.); all are blind. Stunt Man Evel Knievel plans to race a jet-powered...
...last month by Britain's Robin Kriox-Johnston. A onetime big-game hunter and whisky smuggler named John Fairfax is rowing a 22-ft. boat 3,300 miles from the Canary Islands to Florida. Honors for freakish firsts, though, must go to Aleksander Wozniak, a Polish exile and former R.A.F. fighter pilot, who fashioned a pair of 3-ft.-long, canoe-shaped shoes out of wood and walked 33 miles down the Thames from Marlow to Westminster Bridge...
...rebuff sent most reporters off to gripe among themselves in the Homestead's bars. But not U.P.I.'s James Srodes, 29, a former Atlanta Journal political reporter. Trying not to be noticed, the 6-ft. 5-in., 280-lb. reporter poked about for ways to eavesdrop on the superspy-and stumbled into his story. Wandering into the kitchen, Srodes was amazed to discover Helms' speech being amplified through a kitchen intercom so that the help would know when to clear tables without disturbing speakers. In his talk, Helms described Ho Chi Minh as "an utterly cold-blooded...