Word: gordon
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...bumper year for presidential monuments. One, the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library, designed by Gordon Bunshaft for the University of Texas campus in Austin, opened last spring. The other, the much-heralded John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, was created for Washington by Edward Durell Stone. It officially opens this week with a Mass by Leonard Bernstein, which he composed at the request of Jackie Kennedy Onassis. Together, the two buildings cost some $76 million, and they afford some unique evidence about official architectural taste...
Last month more good fortune came when Gordon Griffin, a 23-year Navy veteran, retired back to the island with his two school-age kids. "I like it here," he says. "I can live at my own pace. I'll be lobstering again pretty soon." So the school is safe. Enrollment may even reach 16 this September. The men keep working every evening on two more empty homes. When school opens this fall, they predict that Johanna von Tiling will have children from two or three more families to teach...
...single presidential appointee and staffed by men of the President's choosing. They would draft and implement a firm set of principles on wages and prices. They would have a set of standards to distinguish between so-called 'catchup increases' and new inflationary increases." KERMIT GORDON, former member of the CEA (1961-62). "I am opposed to mandatory controls, but I do feel that wage-price guideposts are a necessary part of any well-balanced economic policy designed to deal with inflation." JOHN P. LEWIS, former member of the CEA (1963-64). "I would like...
...result of the falling out, however, the newspaper will no longer give Lord, Day & Lord litigation assignments. Instead, these will be handled by another New York firm, Cahill, Gordon, Sonnett, Reindel & Ohl, which, with the help of Constitutional Law Professor Alexander Bickel of Yale, successfully represented the Times in the Pentagon papers case...
...Cioffi, who was equally impressive as the villain in Klute. There is also some robust acting by Moses Gunn as an orotund Harlem mobster. Despite a few too many racial jokes, Shaft is a fast-moving pleasure. Director Gordon Parks keeps things going at such a headlong pace that the movie hardly pauses for breath...