Word: max
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last week moved General Maxwell Davenport Taylor. His official title was that of Military Representative of the President, and he was to serve as a military and intelligence planner in the cold war. The specifics of the job were vague, but there is nothing vague about the views that Max Taylor brings to the White House: they have been bluntly and controversially stated in his 1959 book, The Uncertain Trumpet, and in his public statements...
Egalitarianism will be rampant in the nation's newest, most luxurious concert hall. At "topping out" ceremonies last week at Philharmonic Hall in Manhattan's Lincoln Center (to be completed in 1962), Architect Max Abramovitz promised that the new auditorium will do away with the old labels for different-priced seats. Balconies will be called terraces, and loge seats will replace the traditional boxes. The loge seats, however, "will be more generously spaced" than those in the terraces and orchestra. Concertgoers in even the remotest seats will sit under "clouds" of acoustical panels that will heighten tonal quality...
...Headed by Chicago's Superintendent of Schools Benjamin C. Willis, and including Dean John H. Fischer of Teachers College, Columbia University; Historian-Columnist (New York Post) Max Lerner; President O. Meredith Wilson of the University of Minnesota...
...Pound, and Lawrence Durrell have applauded Miller's artistry and have severely attacked the laws of censorship which have prevented the publication of many of his works in this country. Other better known works of Miller include Troplo of Capricorn, Black Spring. The World of Sex, Sexus, Plexus, and Max and the White Phagooytes...
...concoct the theories on which their contraption was based. That job had largely been done by a British baronet who published a lengthy paper on aerodynamics in 1809, nearly a century before Orville Wright made his historic 120-ft. hop. In a new book, Sir George Cayley (Max Parrish, London; 425.), Aeronautics Historian J. Laurence Pritchard, former secretary of the Royal Aeronautical Society, has put together an astonishing catalog of the accomplishments of that prolific genius...