Word: helene
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...four to be honored are: Gordon G. Bensley, art teacher at Phillips Academy, Andover; Mrs. Florence L. Elder mathematics teacher at West Hempstead, N.Y.; Miss Helen Green-wood, English teacher at Lamar Senior High School, Houston, Texas; and Arne H. Gronningsater, English teacher at Riverdale Country School in New York City...
Only one member of the all-white Parliament voted against the bill. Amid government jeers, the lone Progressive Party representative, brunette Helen Suzman, warned that black nationalism as well as white nationalism feeds "on this type of kragdadigheid [toughness]." Although Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd and Vorster describe the menace facing South Africa as "Communism," the bill is clearly aimed at two African nationalist groups calling themselves Poqo and Spear of the Nation. Poqo (pronounced Paw-kaw and meaning "for ourselves alone" in the Xhosa tongue) patterns itself after the dreaded Mau Mau, which terrorized Kenya in the 1950s. It first...
...remove a narrowed section of the aorta-a crippling and potentially fatal defect with which some babies are born. Baltimore's Dr. Al fred Blalock opened the field for surgery directly on a malformed heart with the first blue-baby operation, which he devised in 1944 with Pediatrician Helen Taussig...
Married. Princess Alexandra Helen Elizabeth Olga Christabel, 26, twelfth in the line of succession to the British throne; and Angus James Bruce Ogilvy, 34, commoner second son of the twelfth Earl of Airlie; in Westminster Abbey, London (see THE WORLD...
...Died. Helen Tracy Lowe-Porter, 86, translator into English of Thomas Mann's works, a sprightly Pennsylvanian who wrote poetry and plays (most notably Abdication, a genteel spoof of Edward VIII) but devoted her serious labors to the German literary giant, beginning in 1924 with Buddenbrooks and thereafter translating most of Mann's books, including the monumental, 2,071-page Joseph and His Brothers; after a long illness; in Princeton...