Word: gardner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...John W. Gardner, chairman of the Urban Coalition, will present next week's three Godkin lectures in a television studio rather than broadcast from Sanders Theater...
Attendance at the lectures has dropped over the past few years, and Donald K. Price, dean of the Kennedy School of Government, said that Gardner strongly preferred a television presentation without a question-answer period...
...Gardner, former Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, and now a fellow of the Institute of Politics at the Kennedy School of Government, will lecture on "The Individual and the Society." The lectures will cover many of the city-conflict problems studied by the Urban Coalition as well as the role of demonstrations on and off campus...
...earlier America seemed to have many eccentrics, such as Johnny Appleseed and Thoreau, both of whom heard "a different drummer." The Boston Brahmins produced Eleonora Sears, a ferocious walker who once hiked 110 miles nonstop. Mrs. Isabella Gardner shocked Beacon Hill by practicing Buddhism, drinking beer and strolling down Tremont Street with a lion. Until he died in 1957, "Silver Dollar" Jim West was Houston's favorite millionaire. He owned 30 cars, lived in a $500,000 castle, often wore a pistol and a diamond-studded Texas Ranger's badge. He lugged his own butter to expensive restaurants...
...James A. Gardner, assistant director of Admissions at Harvard, said yesterday that he received an enthusiastic response this year when he recruited in Mississippi, particularly in black schools...