Word: herberts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...youngest predecessor was Herbert Hoover, who held the post in 1921 at the age of 46. Average age of Cabinet members...
...advisory committee on Oriental art of the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the board of regents of the Smithsonian Institution. The National Art Gallery of Taiwan has a standing offer of an assistant curatorship; and last week Oxford University's Balliol College-the politicians' prep that produced Herbert Asquith, Harold Macmillan, Tory Leader Ted Heath, Defense Minister Denis Healey, and such other luminaries as Arnold Toynbee, Julian Huxley, Graham Greene and King Olaf of Norway-invited the Virginia-born Brahmin to lecture on American politics during the fall Michaelmas term. He is, in short, the alter...
...suburbanite fled the city and now resents being called upon to solve its problems. For the most part, he adopts a 'them' v. 'us' attitude." Despite this detachment, reapportioned legislatures have shown a greater awareness of urban problems than any of their predecessors. Says Herbert Wiltsee, director of the Southern Office of the Council of State Governments: "The 1967 legislative sessions have been giving almost unprecedented consideration to such matters as air and water pollution and consumer protection-subjects of special concern to city dwellers and suburbanites...
After decades of prosperity that made it synonymous - often unfairly - with Yanqui imperialism, United Fruit Co. suddenly found itself with a host of overripe problems in the late 1950s. In fact, concedes Herbert C. Cornuelle, 47, who last month became president of the world's largest banana grower and marketer: "The reason we look so good now is that it was awfully bad before it got better." As that appraisal guardedly suggests, United Fruit has made a rather striking comeback...
...desegregated New Orleans schools in 1961. With devastating dignity, Florida's Judge Bryan Simpson quashed bloody disorders in St. Augustine in 1964. By holding Bogalusa's do-nothing police in contempt, Louisiana's Judge Herbert Christenberry prevented a bloodletting among rights workers in 1965. Even rigidly segregated Plaquemines Parish fell to Christenberry's school-integration order in 1966, and Mississippi's foot-dragging Judge Cox now concedes that "segregation is completely out the window...