Word: herberts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Herbert H. Lehman, the grand old man of New York politics, died yesterday of a heart attack in his eighty-fifth year. At the time of his death Lehman, former senator and four-time Governor, was about to leave for Washington where President Johnson was to honor him with a Freedom Award...
Former President Dwig D. Eisenhower and Herbert Hoover both issued statements of sorrow in New York City. Former President Harry S. Truman said he was "shocked beyond words." Richard Cardinal Cushing, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Boston and a lifelong friend of the Kennedy family, said "This terrible tragedy has deprived our country of one of its greatest Presidents...
...guest list read like an East Coast Republicans' Who's Who. Among those attending: former U.S. Attorney General Herbert Brownell, political strategist for Tom Dewey and Dwight Eisenhower; CBS Board Chairman William Paley; Du Font's Pierre S. du Pont III; General Electric's Ralph Cordiner; former Defense Secretary Tom Gates, an Ike intimate; New York Herald Tribune President Walter Thayer; Philadelphia Inquirer Publisher Walter Annenberg, and party officials from Delaware and New Jersey. Invited but sending regrets were George M. Humphrey, Eisenhower's Treasury Secretary, and former G.O.P. National Chairman Meade Alcorn...
Other speakers at the meetings were the Rev. William Howard Melish, a personal friend of DuBois, and Herbert Aptheker, an authority on Negro history, a Marxist scholar and the recipient of all DuBois' personal papers...
...second act, everyone is turning into a rhinoceros. Jean (Herbert Voland) changes before Berenger's eyes, at first thinking he's sick, then talking the part of a rhino compassionately: "We should go back to nature. We need primeval integrity in this world!" Voland's blustering temper and bull-like charges highlight the production; one expects him to attack the audience, but he runs off to join the other pachyderms instead...