Word: kirks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Lonely Are the Brave. Man as God made him and a world God never made meet in mortal battle in this simple, painful story of a cowboy (Kirk Douglas) who tangles with 20th century civilization...
...other Pope, and received some historic papal guests: the first Greek Orthodox sovereign to visit the Pope since the days of the last Byzantine emperor, the first Archbishop of Canterbury since the 14th century, the first chief prelate of the U.S. Episcopal Church, the first Moderator of the Scottish Kirk, the first Shinto high priest. When Jacqueline Kennedy came to visit, John asked his secretary how to address her. Replied the secretary: ' 'Mrs. Kennedy,' or just 'Madame.' since she is of French origin and has lived in France." Waiting in his private library, the Pope mumbled: "Mrs. Kennedy, Madame; Madame...
...deep-sea diver." he explains. "For years I was content to be the guy pumping the air down to the deep-sea diver. Now I feel I've got to put on the suit myself." He pumped air to Marlon Brando in Viva Zapata! and to Kirk Douglas in Lust for Life, each time winning an Oscar as the year's best supporting actor. He created sworls of off-center violence in dozens of other good movies, from 1943's The Ox-Bow Incident to 1961's The Guns of Navarone. But despite his Oscars...
...contributions to the development of the special techniques needed for teaching the mentally retarded, Educator Samuel A. Kirk won a $25,000 award plus $50,000 for the University of Illinois' Institute for Research on Exceptional Children, which he heads. A $50,000 grant to the National Association for Retarded Children for "awakening the nation to the problems and for proving in countless ways that the retarded can be helped," brought the total gifts from the Kennedy Foundation to $225,000. Each award winner also received a soaring Gothic form in crystal, engraved with a figure of the seraph...
First year man Jeff Kirk and Bill Rogerson scored points in every meet and are considered bright prospects for varsity competition. Teammates Roger Smith, Harold Tzeutschler, and Langdon Burwell were also what McCurdy termed "potentially top flight runners...