Word: librarian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Dunster House Librarian...
House Student Librarian...
...their minds, and three out of four of these have decided to vote for Nixon. Says Judy Johnstin, a teacher in Lansing, Mich., who voted for McGovern in her state's primary: "McGovern had to go back on so many things." Mrs. Elaine Daubner, a San Francisco librarian, says of McGovern: "Though I am a loyal Democrat, I don't trust him." Edward Sessa, a retired court clerk in Philadelphia, has shifted from McGovern to Nixon because "I don't approve of the people he's surrounded himself with...
...that he is said to have sangue ghiaccio (icy blood). Andreotti is Italy's first Roman-born Premier since unification. He was only a fledgling lawyer-journalist when he became a wartime protege of Alcide de Gasperi, Italy's great postwar Premier. De Gasperi was a Vatican librarian hiding from the Fascists when Andreotti wandered in one day in 1941 to begin research on papal naval history.* After the war Andreotti became a member of the first Constituent Assembly and also secretary of De Gasperi's Cabinet...
...Francis Scott Key could not possibly have seen the American flag waving over Fort McHenry on that day in 1814 when he wrote The Star-Spangled Banner. According to Librarian P. William Filby of the Maryland Historical Society, it was raining and it would have taken a gale to move the heavy banner. "What Key probably saw was a flag wrapped soggily around a pole." Concludes Filby: "Key didn't come running ashore crying 'Chaps, I've just produced the national anthem.' " He fitted his new poem to the tune of an English drinking song because...