Word: gifts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Still, as the vice-presidential candidate, his gift for dry wit and understated oratory should appeal to a far wider audience than the New Englanders and big-city Poles who claim Ed Muskie as their...
...remaining buildings on the 14-acre complex. "It is raising those last few millions that is the most difficult," says Board Chairman John D. Rockefeller III. But now to the financial rescue comes Mrs. DeWitt Wallace, 78, co-founder of the Reader's Digest. Her $1,000,000 gift to the Center is the fourth such contribution she has made to worthy organizations and causes in recent years. It will be used for the Center's Juilliard library, which will house a collection of music; drama and dance reference materials...
Died. George Gamow, 64, Russian-born theoretical physicist and astronomer; of a gastric hemorrhage; in Boulder, Colo. Although he worked in the arcane worlds of entropy and anti-numbers, Gamow had a rare gift for explaining science to the layman. While teaching at George Washington University, he put his clarity and common sense into nine books, including The Birth and Death of the Sun (1940) and The Creation of the Universe...
Applying Principles. Wordy, brash, grandiose, Cosell has a natural gift for annoying, but at least his approach is in finitely more lively than the usual golly-gee-you're-terrific sport interview on TV. Explains Cosell: "I'm an electronic first. I've gotten where I've gotten in the world of sport just by applying the prin ciples of journalism." He does get his share of scoops; he was the first, for ex ample, to report Wilt Chamberlain's move from the Philadelphia 76ers to the Los Angeles Lakers. But it is more...
Waiting for Hitler. My particular question at that moment concerns the miniature gold whistle Reed wears around his neck. He keeps tugging at it. "It's from Tiffany's," he replies. "Fourteen-karat. From Tiffany's. It's just a gift from a young lady. Nobody famous...