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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...like infantry battalions on a stage hardly ample enough for it under any conditions and made less serviceable by an amorphous grey shrouding which pretends to be the set. Since DeSmit is credited with the scenery this contriction is a failing of conception, not coordination. If his draping was meant to invoke the severity of the Castle Adamant the bastion of femininity rampant which is stormed by player and playwright alike, he succeeded all too well. Somehow he should have devised a symbol which could be put aside when bufoonery called...
...votes were finally in, the Progressive Liberals-who had been struggling along with a one-vote majority in the Bahama's 38-seat House of Assembly-finished with 29 seats, compared with only seven for the United Bahamians. Besides giving Pindling a healthy majority, the vote also meant that once and for all he had buried the predominately white United Bahamians and the "Bay Street Boys," who had run the islands' commerce and politics for well over a decade. At the same time, the election put the destiny of the British colony firmly in the hands...
...following the killing, rival stations in many cities met to implement new guidelines. As expressed in a code signed by broadcasters in San Francisco, it was agreed that "the potential for inciting public disorders demands that competition be secondary to the cause of public safety." In most instances, this meant no live coverage of riots, and instructing TV crews to be inconspicuous by traveling in unmarked cars and filming from rooftops and through windows...
...major change. In 1955, to round out his experience, Regan took charge of Merrill Lynch's Philadelphia office for a five-year period; when he returned to Pine Street he continued living in Bryn Mawr to let his four children grow up in accustomed surroundings. That decision has meant a two-hour commute twice a day ever since. Now, with the children grown, Regan's first presidential decision will be a family move to Sands Point, L.I., a Merrill Lynch executive haven from which his travel time will be 40 minutes...
...spring golf match in the East is usually a wet cold afternoon of trudging around brown fairways and grassless greens. Golf is a summer sport meant to be played under a July sun behind a slow foursome of businessmen...