Word: frederick
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have learned what really took place in this democratic U.S. 100 years ago that I was not taught in high school or college. While the people of this country are paying homage to such men as Lincoln, Washington, Jefferson and Patrick Henry, they would do well to honor Stevens, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, William Lloyd Garrison and Denmark Vesey. The greatest personal commitment one can make to himself today is "Learn, Baby, Learn...
...Frederick William Rolfe, alias Baron Corvo, was one of the more freakishly talented eccentrics of English letters. A homosexual, a paranoiac, a scoundrel, a petty blackmailer and a fake, he was constantly in debt, sponged on his friends, excoriated his enemies and died in 1913 in self-imposed exile in Venice. At 26 he converted to Roman Catholicism and trained for the priesthood. Twice dismissed from seminaries, he retained a lifelong conviction of his priestly vocation...
Some movie fans just won't settle for sitting through endless reruns of their idol's films or collecting faded photographs. San Francisco Restaurateur Frederick Reeve has always had a passion for Humphrey Bogart, and when he heard of plans to scrap Bogie's African Queen, the grand old tub in which he and Katharine Hepburn chugged down the Ulanga in their 1951 movie, well, something had to be done. So Reeve flew to Nairobi, bought the old girl for $750, now plans to refurbish her for $10,000 more and haul the craft around the country...
When Physicist Frederick Seitz, 56, becomes president of Manhattan's Rockefeller University on July 1, he will be taking over a 14-year-old school that has only 138 students. For Seitz, who has been head of the National Academy of Sciences since 1962, it will hardly be a professional step back ward. Rockefeller University not only ranks as one of the world's leading centers of scientific research, but is also a unique educational phenomenon-a graduate university that gives no grades, charges no tuition, confers nothing except doctoral degrees...
Computer consoles for nightly undergraduate use will be installed in three Houses and in Sever next fall, following a recommendation of the eight-man Faculty committee chaired by Frederick Mosteller, professor of Mathematical Statistics...