Word: mets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spot reporting from Russia, now has its own Moscow bureau again. The correspondent: Edmund Stevens, 48, a highly respected. Pulitzer-prizewin-ning reporter who has spent 13 of the past 23 years in Moscow. Denver-born Ed Stevens first went to Russia after graduation from Columbia University, there met (at an economics lecture) and married blonde Nina Andreyevna. Except for time-outs to cover ten World War II battle campaigns, from Finland to the Balkans and North Africa, and a postwar tour in the Mediterranean area, Stevens, a longtime Christian Science Monitor correspondent, has stuck close to the Soviet scene...
Helen Stevenson-Meyner, 30 dark-haired daughter of Ohio's Oberlin College president, met New Jersey's bachelor governor when he was visiting her parents two years ago, married him in January 1957. She is slowly losing her early shyness, dutifully turns up at official fetes, fairs and fund-raising projects, plays tireless hostess for frequent luncheons, dinners and sightseeing tours at the gubernatorial mansion. She campaigned with her husband at election time but gave few speeches, has made a pincushion out of the back seat of the Meyners' state-owned Cadillac. "These women come...
Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, 28, comes from a socialite Republican family (the late Manhattan Financier John V. Bouvier III), got a socialite's education, was inquiring photographer for the Washington Post and Times-Herald when she met Jack Kennedy "over the asparagus" at a dinner party in 1951. They were married at a big Newport blowout (700 guests) in September 1953, have an infant daughter. Although she traveled with her husband during the last campaign ("Some days we would shake 2,500 to 3,000 hands"), Jackie tried to avoid making speeches, prefers a homebody's life...
...stated comparison is that the individualistic and inquiring personality prevails in Cambridge whereas unity and democracy are manifest in New Haven. Former Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson put it this way: "In the classrooms of Harvard there was a spirit of independent thinking unlike anything I had met before... The whole atmosphere was electric with the sparks of competitive argument. On the other hand, there was little of the corporate class spirit and democratic energy which was so visible on the Yale campus...
...first recorded College rebellion, The Rebellion of 1766, was over bad butter at Commons. The students' leader was Asa Dunbar '67, grandfather of Henry Thoreau. On complaining to Tutor Belcher Hancock, Dunbar's demands were not met and he was condemned by the Faculty to be degraded in seniority and to confess his sin. The students then walked out of the hall at the next breakfast before "giving thanks," raised three cheers in the Yard and breakfasted in town. The whole incident is summed up in "The Book of Harvard," written by an undergraduate...