Word: frankness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...party member in good standing until arrested in Stalin's widespread purges of the mid-1930s. Not long after he was released from a labor camp, after Stalin's death in 1953, his daughter Nina gained posthumous fame in the Soviet Union as Russia's Anne Frank. At the age of 20, she had been executed by the Nazis for her part in a partisan raid, and her diary of the dark days of the German invasion, published in 1962, won wide acclaim. Once rehabilitated, Kosterin spent much of his time criticizing Russian officialdom for its treatment...
Time was when Frank Sinatra, 52, figured he owned Los Angeles. And he was proud of his possession. No more. "I've had it with Los Angeles and Hollywood," Frank announced. "The smog is so bad I had to visit my doctor once a week because my nose and throat are affected by it. I don't like the city government or the way things are run. The whole city needs cleaning up." So Frank is clearing out. "I haven't got too many years of singing left and I have to take care of myself." That...
...missions into space, but none has been as ambitious or adventurous as the next one on NASA's schedule. If all goes well, on the morning of Dec. 21 a 3,100-ton Saturn 5 will rise slowly from its pad at Cape Kennedy. Three days later, Astronauts Frank Borman, James A. Lovell Jr. and William A. Anders will be spending Christmas Eve in the spaceship Apollo 8, farther from home than any men have ever been: they will be circling the moon...
...Rope Is an Idea. One change has been the new emphasis on soft, amorphous Oldenburgian constructions, works that fold and change from day to day. They share sloppiness and seeming crudity. Museumgoers in Chicago and Milwaukee this year found themselves climbing inside semitransparent, womblike constructions by Frank Lincoln Viner and Jean Lindner. Unlike Oldenburg's work, these works depict no recognizable object, but like it, they change with the touch of a human hand...
Stageberg romped home in first place with a seventy-yard lead over Holy Cross ace Art Dulong. He was followed in close order by Pitt's Jerry Richey, Villanova's Dick Buerkle, Yale's Frank Shorter, and Villanova's Tom Donnelly before Potteti opened the Harvard scoring...