Word: friendships
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Associate Justices paid White a magnificent tribute: they petitioned President Taft to appoint him to head the court. Oliver Wendell Holmes, who was on the court at that time, had been wounded five times while serving in the Union forces, said Warren. Yet Holmes and White formed "an abiding friendship." In 1915, in Guinn v. U.S., the White court considered an Oklahoma amendment that discriminated against Negroes by requiring a literacy test of anyone whose ancestors had not been eligible to vote prior to 1866, the year after the slavery-prohibiting 13th Amendment went into effect. It was Chief Justice...
Instead, Prem's problems multiply. Soon to become a father, he tries to ask Mr. Khanna for a raise, but fumbles it. His landlord declines a rent reduction. He is frustrated in his friendship with an eccentric young American who has come to India to find spiritual enrichment. "You grow souls," says the American. To which Prem replies: "Our steel output is also increasing." Meanwhile, his mother's nagging drives Indu back to her own family...
Down on the Farm. The man who will have to lead Germany into the "new phase" of Western policy has three outstanding characteristics: he is well aware of Europe's great and tragic past, he is strongly committed to Ger-man-U.S. friendship, and he has unshakable faith in the destiny of free men and a free economy...
...Houston Symphony Orchestra three years ago, Texans proudly proclaimed "The Grand Alliance." An emblem was struck for the orchestra depicting the Lone Star flag shoulder-to-shoulder with Sir John's Union Jack, and by happy coincidence Harold Macmillan himself said what was on everyone's lips: "Friendship between Texas and Great Britain is a most important thing." The orchestra celebrated its 50th year last week with a gala concert on the anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar, and Sir John felt properly Nelsonian: "This is the most exciting orchestra...
...greatly improved the orchestra during his 51-year tenure, he also proved himself hopelessly alien to the strange culture of the far west. He called Houston "Hooston," and his chauffeur, in poetic inability to say "Maestro," called the boss "Moscow." When Sir John arrived, things were different. Anglo-Texan friendship was immediately established...