Word: kenneths
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Said New York Republican Kenneth Keating in the House: "Any legislation must provide for due process, guarantee a full and fair hearing for those who may be denied passports . . . but also seek to achieve a realistic balance between the demands of national security and the individual liberties of our citizens-a balance the court in recent years has often ignored...
Bard College Cyrus Eaton, industrialist LL.D. Henry M. Wriston, president emeritus, Brown University LL.D. John Kenneth Galbraith, economist and author LL.D...
...distinguishing mark of such leading Pacific Northwest painters as Mark Tobey, Morris Graves and Kenneth Callahan is their ability to mix Zen with zest, give an Oriental slant to their Western vision. Now a major new artistic talent, who arrived at the East-West meeting point by a different route, has appeared among them. The newcomer: patient and painfully modest Paul Horiuchi, 52, a Japanese-born American who for years made his living as a railroad foreman...
Harvard's John Kenneth Galbraith, 49. is an economist who has always found a wider audience than his less articulate colleagues. His American Capitalism: the Concept of Countervailing Power was a bestseller in 1952; some of its ideas went into the 1956 campaign speeches of Adlai Stevenson, which Galbraith helped write. This week, in The Affluent Society (Houghton Mifflin; $4), Galbraith published what he obviously intended to be a searching inquiry into the U.S. economy. Instead, it is a well-written but vague essay with the air of worried dinner-table conversation...
...bestsellers by the appointed time: Jean Kerr's Please Don't Eat the Daisies. Edna Ferber's Ice Palace, Paul I. Wellman's Ride the Red Earth, and Robert Lewis Taylor's The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters. By also entering two less-likelies, Kenneth Roberts' The Battle of Cowpens and Saunders Redding's The Lonesome Road. Doubleday had thought to give its parlay some sporting zest. It succeeded too well. In flowed letters at the rate of 500 a day; out flowed free books. By the time the mails had poured in some...