Word: kensington
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Another minister, the Rev. C. Edward Thompson, 43, of New Kensington, Pa., stood atop the bunker, lifted his hands and cried out for mercy. A fusillade from a Communist automatic weapon killed him; his wife died moments later when the North Vietnamese sprayed the inside of the bunker with small-arms fire. On leaving the mission, the Reds kidnaped another American nurse, Miss Betty Olsen, 32, and Henry Blood of Portland, Ore., a member of the Wycliffe Bible Translators...
...pressures and grounded the planes for 37 days. Clifford was called to the White House Situation Room when war flared in the Middle East last June and Mos cow activated the "hot line." And it is Clifford who gathers trusted friends for good food and barbershop harmonizing at his Kensington, Md., home when a lonely President telephones and asks: "Can I come to dinner...
...ROYAL PALACES (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Sir Kenneth Clark, noted art critic, is host for a special tour of Britain's treasure domes: Windsor Castle, Buckingham Palace, St. James's Palace, Hampton Court, Kensington Palace, Edinburgh's Palace of Holyrood and the Royal Pavilion at Brighton...
Died. Ruth Shipley, 81, longtime (1928-55) head of the State Department's Passport Division, known as "the Czarina of the Potomac" by liberals who objected to her zealous enforcement of regulations restricting the travel of Communists and their friends; of a heart attack; in Kensington, Md. F.D.R. had his own phrase for her-"a delightful ogre"-possibly because he once intervened on behalf of a friend denied a passport, had to report back: "Mrs. Shipley says no and that...
...serious trouble. One critic has warned that the scepter'd isle seems ready to "sink giggling into the sea." Author Michael Shanks (The Stagnant Society) says that "the hardheaded (and often hardhearted) millowners and steel masters of the North have bred the little flirts of Chelsea and Kensington. It is gay, it is madly amusing, and it carries with it the smell of death." Few would perhaps put Britain's malaise in such harsh terms, but even George Brown, when he was Labor's Economics Minister last May (he has since become Foreign Secretary), said that "fundamental...