Word: gettysburg
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gettysburg head coach John M. Yovicsin was appointed Harvard's twenty-second football coach yesterday, just nine weeks after his predecessor, Lloyd Jordan, had been dismissed...
...which had similar objections before Ike began to use two-engined instead of four-engined planes for short hauls), the President has wanted to beat his traffic problem by using a helicopter to take him directly from the White House to the airport-and even as far as his Gettysburg farm. The White House last week announced that Ike had given the green light for helicopter test flights to and from the White House's south lawn in preparation for a regular service...
...warm air of southern Georgia, a pair of English setters dubbed Art and George stretched their legs after a ride down from Gettysburg, Pa., and sniffed curiously at the Southland smells. In Washington, clearing his desk in anticipation of two weeks of quail hunting, golf and bridge, the setters' master sniffed now and again in anticipation of a vacation in the same Southland. But whenever Dwight Eisenhower wandered, he was quickly pulled back from Georgia to global strategies. For the mood of Washington last week was wrapped around world affairs. At Ike's press conference, correspondents, subject...
...press quickly picked up the story, but not without an argument. U.P. Staff Correspondent H. D. Quigg wondered whether his lordship would prefer to have the Gettysburg Address begin: "Eighty-seven years ago our fathers founded here a new nation." And what about the about, asked Quigg, in the Biblical phrase, "And the glory of the Lord shone round about them"? But Lord Conesford stuck to his guns. Last week, invited to appear on CBS-TV's The Last Word, he landed in the U.S. to continue the attack...
...Gettysburg was a subject worthy to join the nuggets that Omnibus has been throwing into TV's current season of dross. In recent weeks it has served up a stunning Oedipus (TIME, Jan. 21), an illuminating and instructive essay on the dance by Agnes de Mille. and Leonard Bernstein's brilliant primer on modern music. To do this, Omnibus must virtually ignore the rest of TV's unabashed efforts to please at any price. Such is Omnibus' charter. So far it has spent some $8,900,000 of Ford Foundation funds in its five seasons (about...