Word: milles
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wrote in Six Crises, "who had proved during the fund crisis that he was a cool man under pressure, had excellent judgment, and was one to whom I could speak with complete freedom without any concern that what I might say would find its way into the Washington gossip mill...
Perhaps another reason for the Nixon-Rogers bond is the remarkable similarity of background and development. Both were born to families of modest means in small towns 55 years ago, Rogers in Norfolk, N.Y., where his father was a cashier in a paper mill. Both boys went to work early, Rogers at age 14 as a photographer's assistant. They had to scrape for their education: scholarships, some help from his family and income from an assortment of jobs (dishwasher, waiter, door-to-door salesman of brushes) got Rogers through college at Colgate and law school at Cornell. Both...
...lost somewhere along the line. Its premise--European noblemen on a hunting safari in American Indian country--promised a possible reversal of an old Henry James theme, and certainly a chance to see familiar territory peopled by somewhat stranger animals than one finds in your run-of-the-mill western. But it was not to be: after the dramatic novelty of an execrably-filmed first five minutes, the Europeans prove themselves no different from any old tourist-class wagon train passenger. We are left to coast along, languidly carried by the debatable charisma of Sean Connery fighting Indians...
...wonder: is it the paprika . . . ? THOMAS N. FORIS Mill Valley, Calif...
HERE SHE is now, in the middle of the Notre Dame campus. "I chose Notre Dame," she says as smiling Notre Dame men mill about her singing We Shall Overcome and making the peace sign, "because to kids in The Movement it is a very symbolic place. I mean, you know, Ara Parseghian is really a kind of guru, and you know the whole campus just gives off this real sense of freedom. You can do your own thing here, and you just can't do it in the Purdue Marching Band...