Word: hille
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...older brother and junior Senate colleague, Robert, was accurate as well as amusing. Bobby is political patriarch of the clan and may be a candidate for President in a few years, but he is way behind his kid brother when it comes to the use of power on Capitol Hill...
...Yorkers got back in the game on Buzz Hill's pinpoint shot at 4:31 of the second period. The former Princeton defenseman carried down the left boards, fought off two checks, and picked up the exact lower right corner with his shot...
...short, McNamara achieved President Truman's frustrated dream of unifying and centrally controlling the armed services. But this was not accomplished without heavy political costs--particularly on Capitol Hill, where many Congressmen preferred to deal with the services individually. It is likely that the political debits that McNamara accumulated in fulfilling this revolutionary task made him, after seven years of infighting, something of a liability in President Johnson's eyes...
Ryerson began to think about starting his own experimental school while teaching at Shady Hill, Brattle Street's private elementary school. Teaching English to the ninth grade there, one of his concerns was with placing students in secondary schools. "I was very dissatisfied," he said. "Private schools were taking only sure fire bets and public schools were effectively doing the same by putting such students in top sections...
...immensely popular teacher at Shady Hill, Ryerson is now the major force behind the Palfrey Street School. Working with his wife, Alice, the school psychologist, he is putting into practice his own theory of liberal education, teaches daily English classes, maintains a constant personal involvement in every detail of the problems of individual students and faculty members, as well as fulfilling his administrative duties...