Word: josephe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Publisher Walter Annenberg (the Philadelphia Inquirer, TV Guide, the Daily Racing Form), 60, will reportedly get the prized job of Ambassador to the Court of St. James's. The London appointment has often gone to a wealthy campaign supporter-to Joseph Kennedy under F.D.R., to John Hay Whitney under Eisenhower-and Annenberg fills that bill precisely. His Triangle Publications has become a $200 million-a-year empire; Annenberg is known in Philadelphia as a tough man to cross. He is an old, trusted friend of Nixon, and the President-elect stayed at his Palm Springs home shortly after...
...week's end McCarthy lent credence to that assessment by choosing an assignment to the Government Op erations Committee. A relatively lowly panel, Operations nevertheless has achieved a great deal of publicity under such diverse chairmen as the late Joseph McCarthy and the present John McClellan. Why Government Operations for Eugene McCarthy? As cryptic as ever, he rejoined: "If the medium is the message, as McLuhan says, then, extending it to Congress, the operation is the policy...
...seems concerned with more spiritual matters. "I wanted my goodness back," said the 54-year-old playwright; so he converted to Catholicism last week in St. Mary Star of the Sea Church near his home in Key West, Fla. A former Episcopalian, Williams was baptized by the Rev. Joseph LeRoy. Convinced that God has been calling him to Catholicism, Williams now plans a trip to Rome, where he hopes to receive a personal blessing from the Pope...
...York's Queens College, a 26,000-student unit of the City University of New York was shut down for two days by President Joseph P. McMurray "to avoid possible violence." Black and Puerto Rican students demanded the right to control the appointment of the director of the SEEK (Search for Education, Elevation and Knowledge) program that was set up in 1966 to help minority students...
...Joseph Michael Valachi looks a bit like a Damon Runyon gangster-the tough guy who really is all heart. Short (5 ft. 6 in.) and bandy-legged, he could pass as one of those middle-aged truck drivers who spend their days oiT lifting weights at the local gym, then go home and cook up a dinner for the wife and kids-"Joe's Special Recipe for Spaghetti Sauce and Meatballs...