Word: greenes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Successful Simplicity. As his field commander, McNamara has chosen husky Brigadier General William Ekman, 54, a bayonet-hard combat officer who led parachute assaults during World War II and was an original leader of the Green Berets. Though he has never previously grappled with civil rights or the law, Missouri-born Ekman (West Point, '38) knows how to face down segregationist landlords. "He looks on his new job as another battle," says a friend...
...Columbus, Ind., "the Athens of the Prairie," she listened to the American National Opera Company and praised the striking smalltown, big-name architecture (including work by such distinguished designers as I. M. Pei and the late Eero Saarinen). At Ironwood, Mich., she dedicated a park. At Avoca and Spring Green, Wis., she toured a dairy farm and chatted with the widow of Frank Lloyd Wright. ID. Madison, after spending the night with Republican Governor and Mrs. Warren Knowles, she talked to 3,000 youngsters attending the World Youth Forum of the World Food Exposition. Then she flew back to Washington...
...dangdest bunch of lobbyists anyone ever laid eyes on-a five-man Arkansas jug band appearing before a Senate subcommittee on behalf of Green Thumb, a Government project that gives old folks jobs beautifying Arkansas roadsides. As the jug band sawed away, someone passed out Green Thumb hard hats (worn as protection against falling tree branches). One of the hats wound up atop that dour Arkansan John McClellan, 71. Without a change in his grim expression, McClellan stood up and began dancing a jig to the Arkansas Traveler, all the while slapping at the hat to keep it in place...
...incidence is rising noticeably in the white population of the U.S. The same pigment, by filtering solar radiation, impedes synthesis of vitamin D, which prevents rickets and is manufactured from the sun's rays by the body. As early man migrated out of the tropical sun-into the green jungle, north to less torrid zones-light skin thereupon conferred an advantage by admitting more vitamin D-produc-ing sunlight. And the lottery of evolution, patiently awaiting the appropriate mutation, then fixed this advantage into place. Thus, over the centuries, environmental factors were producing genetic changes...
...best woman win," Mrs. Hicks declared, beaming over a green and white victory cake at 400 cheering campaign workers in her downtown headquarters at the Boston City Club. She then drove off to tour local television stations while the crowd broke into an Irish...