Word: graham
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...entertainment. She has dispensed with white tie and tails in favor of the less imposing black tie. She mixes her guest lists with a style that would make Karnak's eyes pop. At a rooftop dance for Costa Rican President Francisco Orlich, for example, guests included Evangelist Billy Graham, Comedian Jimmy Durante, Composer Richard Rodgers, Chase Manhattan Bank President David Rockefeller and Author John Dos Passes-while Lady Bird's daughter Luci danced the frug to the music of Lester Lanin's orchestra...
...nearly as risky as inviting Hedda Hopper, Sheilah Graham, Lolly Parsons and Dorothy Kilgallen to tea together, but Chief Economic Adviser Walter Heller thought he could pull it off. For months he worked to arrange an unprecedented meeting of four past chairmen of the Council of Economic Advisers with President Johnson. Though economists are a notably proud and prickly lot, Heller felt that the meeting would indicate that the former chairmen generally support the major points of the Administration's economic policy, and he hoped that acrimonious debate could be avoided. Last week President Johnson joined Heller and Economic...
...merged their talents and names in the Denishawn Dancers. In its 16 years the company won grand acclaim the world over. The Shawns were among the first to create ballets drawn from American themes. Their chain of Denishawn dance schools groomed such prime movers of modern dance as Martha Graham, Doris Humphrey, Charles Weidman. Their proudest accomplishment, individually and together, was to help vanquish the puritanical mistrust with which most Americans had traditionally viewed the dance, to make their art part of the nation's cultural life...
...Artist Robert Rauschenberg thinks "every object is as good as every other object." But could they belong to derrière-garde London? After presenting 15 ballets in six performances at Sadler's Wells, the triarchy established itself as the most explosive event in British ballet since Martha Graham's London debut in 1954. At week's end the company had proved such a surprise smash that it transferred to another theater for 18 more performances...
...average 96.56 m.p.h. and break the record he set last year. Surtees played it cozy for the first few laps, letting the field sort itself out, then gunned his Ferrari into the lead for good and finished 76 sec. ahead of Fellow Briton Graham Hill. Bad luck dogged Scotland's Jim Clark, the reigning world champion, who failed to finish because of a burned valve. Point standings for the 1964 championship after six races: Hill 32, Clark 30, Surtees...