Word: laureled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ceremony's a name for the rich horn/And custom for the spreading laurel tree," as W. B. Yeats put it in a wedding poem,* this June the horn is richer than ever, and the laurels are spreading so thick that it is getting harder and harder to make one's way to church. With 195,000 brides to be married this month, the booking problem is so acute in the nation's churches that the Lady Chapel in Manhattan's St. Patrick's Cathedral must be reserved nine months in advance; at the Little Church...
...NASA will say who is responsible for Commander Shepard's D.S.M., but that perhaps is a blessing. One side of the medal shows a planet and satellite-a motif that any schoolboy might have thought up. On the other side is the inevitable laurel wreath. As for the lettering, Designer Henry Hart of the Smithsonian Institution has just one word: "Atrocious...
From Moscow for May Day came an appropriate laurel for Fidel Castro-a Lenin Peace Prize and $27,750 for his "tremendous contribution to the cause of strengthening the peace and the security of nations." As 500,000 arm-swinging Cubans marched through Havana's Plaza Civica last week, the bearded dictator made clear his contribution to the cause of Communism, if not of peace. Proclaimed Castro: "This is a socialist regime. Yes, this is a socialist regime"-and he seemed to mean not just a welfare state, but socialist in the way Communist states describe themselves, an imperfect...
...Hope's hand and smiled seemed unlikely to replace them. Briefly, it was not Hollywood being photographed-Hollywood struts and preens; it was a roomful of aging show people reminiscing about better days. The mood continued as Danny Kaye read the citation of a special Oscar for Stan Laurel, the old slapsticker. Laurel is ill, and was not present...
...absence of a judge, moderator K. Henrikson '62 decided to award prize--"the only thing he could find the Square resembling the ancient laurel wreath"--to the team that more people by its argument. before the debate started showed people in favor of abolishing the Committee, 13 supporting its activities, and undecided. By the end of the hes, before a heavily Democratic once, four people had changed their in favor of the HUAC, and only had been converted to the HYDC on that it should be abolished...