Word: gilbert
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Speaking for the court, Justice William C. Stuart noted that the gentle, ailing, "highly respected" Mr. Bannister "has served on the school board and regularly teaches a Sunday-school class at the Gilbert Congregational Church." By contrast, Justice Stuart pointed to Painter's seven jobs in ten years, asserted that he is "either an agnostic or an atheist and has no concern for formal religious training. He has read a lot of Zen Buddhism." Though Marylyn is a Roman Catholic, the couple planned to send Mark to a Congregational church "on an irregular schedule." Painter, added Stuart...
Explosive Expansion. While they assessed the Russian information, Western scientists continued to interpret Luna 9's pictures. London University Astronomer Gilbert Fiedler called attention to lines in some of the pictures that might be edges of an ancient lava flow; he agreed with the Russians and many American scientists that the porous surface resulted from the explosive expansion of gases in the lava as it emerged onto the moon's airless surface...
...stout was downed in his honor at Davy Byrne's, the pub he celebrated. But in Paris, at the American Center for Students and Artists, 350 partisans of James Joyce got together to celebrate the 84th anniversary of his birth. After Author Mary McCarthy, Joyce Scholar Stuart Gilbert and the rest of the cult articulately wished him a happy birthday, the ghost of James lyrically garbled everything by reciting some of Ulysses from a tape recorder...
...Died. Gilbert Hovey Grosvenor, 90, chairman since 1954 of the National Geographic Society and editor until then of its magazine, an ardent conservationist, traveler and journalist, who spiked the once stuffily academic Geographic with handsome color spreads and eyewitness reports, including the first conquest of Mount Everest, thereby hiking circulation from 900 to 2,000,000 (now 4,500,000) at his retirement; of a stroke; in Baddeck, Nova Scotia...
While Marr and Duer were giving Princeton a quick two-match bulge, undefeated Crimson sophomore Rick Sterne was taming Tom Gilbert's powerful backhand in the number three match...