Word: hamilton
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Despite the ceremonial presence of Queen Elizabeth's 65-year-old Aunt Mary, the Princess Royal, Trinidadians had a sort of abandoned-by-Britain feeling. Cuba's Castro and Soviet Premier Khrushchev sent well-wishers. The U.S. substituted AID Director Fowler Hamilton for busy Arthur Goldberg, hoping to interest Trinidad in joining the Organization of American States and so becoming eligible for Alianza para el Progreso assistance. Already receiving $1,100,000 a year from AID, Premier Williams had no hesitation in pronouncing Trinidad "unequivocally west of the Iron Curtain...
...more than good College Board test scores (the freshman mean: 615 out of a possible 800). More decisive were written essays and proof of intellectual curiosity. Instead of summer loafing, next fall's incoming freshmen were busy last week perusing a list of prescribed books, from Edith Hamilton's The Greek Way to Western Civilization and Calvin Hall's A Primer of Freudian Psychology to William Golding's Lord of the Flies...
...severely hampered. The Administration got busy to try to stop the House from whacking out the one thing that Kennedy wanted most: freedom to try to pry some nations loose from Moscow with aid. The President summoned congressional leaders of both parties to the White House. Aid Administrator Fowler Hamilton personally pleaded with some 100 Congressmen, and Ambassador George Kennan flew home from his post in Belgrade to make a pitch to the House. The Administration even got key help from Pennsylvania's champion anti-Communist Francis Walter, who argued: "For years one of the major deterrents to World...
Paul Kidd, 29, feature writer, Hamilton (Ont.) Spectator, will be the second holder of the Canadian Fellowship, sponsored by the Reader's Digest Association of Canada. A native of England, where he started newspaper work on the Evening Chronicle of Newcastle-on-Tyne, Kidd has been six years on the Hamilton paper. He plans to study Latin America...
...trial in 1735 for publishing the New York Weekly Journal, which contained articles attacking the arbitrary measures of the Governor of New York, William Cosby. Zenger was arrested on the charge of false and scandalous libel, and imprisoned and held incommunicado for nine months. Zenger's lawyer, Andrew Hamilton of Philadelphia, argued that the statements published were in fact true. In deciding for Zenger, the principle was established that the publication of truthful statements could not be considered libelous...