Word: kingstone
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Although they come from different areas of Ontario--Pinney hauls from Kingston, while Buntie is a Toronto native-their paths to the Crimson vaulting team are remarkably similar. Both began their track careers as high jumpers but when entering high school switched to vaulting...
...interventionist force," insists R.D.F. Commander Lieut. General Robert Kingston. But in fact the R.D.F. does have plans for various contingencies, ranging from mere intelligence sharing to armed assistance if a beleaguered government in the gulf were to call upon the U.S. to provide it. The trouble is, U.S. analysts are hard pressed to imagine a moderate Arab state subjecting itself to-and surviving-the humiliation of having to call the Marines to its rescue. Therefore, says William Quandt, a leading American expert on the Middle East now at the Brookings Institution in Washington, "the gulf states are looking for sources...
DIED. Emmet John Hughes, 61, presidential aide and speechwriter for Dwight D. Eisenhower, longtime journalist at Time Inc. and author who wrote extensively on the U.S. presidency; of a heart attack; in Kingston, N.J. Despite drafting speeches for Ike's 1952 and 1956 campaigns and working from 1968 to 1970 for Governor Nelson Rockefeller, Hughes saw himself as a "dissident Democrat." In America the Vincible (1959), he called the Eisenhower Administration's foreign policies "static, timid, vacillating and unrealistic," thus severing his personal relationship with the President. With The Ordeal of Power: A Political Memoir of the Eisenhower...
DIED. Eugene Loring, 71, dancer and choreographer whose Billy the Kid (1938) is a classic De Mille-style Americana ballet, and who also created dances in such films as Silk Stockings and Funny Face (1957); of cancer; in Kingston...
Nathaniel Gove, 19, of Kingston, Mass., was diagnosed as dyslectic in the second grade. He was pushed through a special public school program with a dozen other children who had various physical and emotional handicaps. Unable to spell, for example, he was told to "just skip it." In junior high school, he was assigned to a large special-education class that satisfied the law but virtually ignored Nat's problems. He and his parents were unaware of how little he was learning until a college counselor told his father: "Your son is hopeless." Furious at the summary judgment...