Word: ivans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Maddox might reconstitute itself after November as a grass roots Wallacite party. A biracial coalition of white urban liberals like Charles Longstreet Weltner from progressive Altanta and black community leader state Rep. Julian Bond comprise the new party. Old-style moderates like former Gov. Carl Sanders and Atlanta Mayor Ivan Allen will soon have to make a decision on which party--the redneck Maddox majority or the chronic minority liberals--they will go with...
...Painted with normal eyes, a figure can wander off the canvas," John D. Graham once observed. To understand that remark, it is necessary to know something about Graham. Born Ivan Dabrowsky in Russia, he was a little-known painter who became a colorful figure in the Greenwich Village art scene and died still unrecognized at the age of 80-odd in 1961. He is currently being honored with an exhibit of 27 paintings and drawings at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art - and they show what he meant about eyes. Graham evidently felt that the viewer's attention...
...give his venture prestige, Barish shrewdly enlisted as directors of GRAMCO Ltd. not only Salinger but half a dozen other Government aides. Among them: former HEW Under Secretary Ivan Nestingen, former Commerce Department Executive John Stillman and former White House Assistant Richard Donahue. As chairman, a role that he assumed on leaving Continental...
...Literally, Place of the Skull, Lobnoye Mes to is a large masonry platform near the Cathedral of Basil the Blessed. In czarist days, it was used as a place of supplication and as the site of royal orders. The unpleasant name probably dates from the reign of Ivan the Terrible, who had his enemies executed there...
License Numbers. Back home, the Czechoslovak people continued to show the same sort of solidarity with Dubcek as Svoboda had shown. Many of them wore red, white and blue corsages and carried IVAN GO HOME! placards. Thev burned propaganda leaflets dropped from Soviet helicopters. Hundreds of thousands of citizens in fac tories, sports clubs and professional associations signed petitions calling upon Svoboda to declare Czechoslovakia neu tral and withdraw from the Warsaw Pact. Radio Prague began broadcasting the license-plate numbers of secret police cars so that people could slash their tires...