Word: josephe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There were wounded feelings in other capitals besides Tokyo. The Argentines were chagrined when John Davis Lodge was shunted to Buenos Aires, after the notably uninterested envoy's appointment to the Organization of American States was overruled by Secretary of State William Rogers. At OAS, Joseph J. Jova, another minor-league professional, last week was named to replace Sol Linowitz, a successful lawyer-businessman with close ties to L.B.J. Latins fear this means that Nixon will downplay...
...investigate the incident, and Governor Robert McNair backed the police. Five of the nine defendants subsequently won promotions, and a federal grand jury refused to indict. Finally, the Justice Department brought misdemeanor charges against the nine. The state provided the cops' defense lawyers, including Assistant Attorney General Joseph C. Coleman...
...Joseph Kennedy and Rose bought the house in 1914 for only $6,600 and lived there for the first six years of their marriage; the Kennedy family repurchased the house in 1966 for $55,000. It was designated a national historic site by Congress in 1967. The house is to be open to the public daily, which will assure a permanent addition to the ubiquitous Kennedy legend. Some of the original furnishings are on display -including John Kennedy's bassinet, the silver bowl and spoon he used as a child, and two of the favorite books of his boyhood...
...technical preceptors in literature were Henry James and Joseph Conrad, two authors who shared an ability to interweave seamlessly dramatic theme and moral vision. Pooh-poohing grandiose abstractions, she persistently reasserted that the prime requisites for fiction are specific details, concrete images and exact sensations. "The fact is that the materials of the fiction writer are the humblest. Fiction is about everything human and we are made out of dust, and if you scorn getting yourself dusty, then you shouldn't try to write fiction. It's not a grand enough...
Born in St. Joseph, Mo., Hawk began to play the piano at five, the cello at seven, and was fingering a sax at nine. While playing with Singer Mamie Smith's Jazz Hounds on a Manhattan gig, Hawkins, then 19, was heard one night by Band Leader Fletcher Henderson, who signed him and kept him for eleven years. Hawk developed his particular sound-breathy, but also powerful and deep-grounded-in part, as he once said, "because I was trying to play over seven or eight other horns all the time." In 1939, while working with his own combo...