Word: lights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...earnestly make this suggestion, as I start this journey tonight, that you, and those close to you, join with me in a renewed dedication to our moral and spiritual convictions, and in that light re-examine our own record, including our shortcomings. In this rededication we shall replenish the true source of America's strength-her faith; and, flowing from it, her love of liberty, her devotion to justice...
...Navy job in 1957. He ran a taut and tidy ship, was always willing to listen and learn, but ready with a decision when it was called for. When a new naval aide reported to him for duty, Gates told him: "Look, I need ideas. I can light my own cigarettes." Says a three-star admiral: "If you dumped a messy problem in his lap, he would somehow tidy it up and put it neatly in a package and dispose of it. He was the best Navy Secretary we ever...
Since then, discussion of the non-Honors program has revolved around the question of House or Departmental control of the program. The CEP statement did not make clear who should run the programs, but Monro's report throws a new light on this issue...
Illness prevented one of the two scheduled pianists from performing, with a resulting insecurity that will hopefully be rectified by this afternoon (along with a somewhat trigger-happy light board technician). Cecelia Hopkins played the flute obbligatos with assurance...
Author Dunham states in a note to the reader that what she has written is not an autobiography, but the book's heroine is a girl named Katherine Dunham who grew up near Chicago, as did the author, the daughter of an American Negro man and a light-skinned French Canadian woman. Albert Dunham, the sullen, tormented father, dominates the story. Ambitious and immature, he marries beautiful Fanny June Taylor, a well-to-do woman many years older than he, and for a time is able to regard himself as a man of property. But not long after Katherine...