Word: mottos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...desk of Mayor Richard Joseph Daley, 60. In Chicago, Daley is boss. Few others understand so well what the city is all about: its labyrinths of power, the pulsators of its machinery, the structure of its institutions, the yearnings of its people. Chicago's motto, I WILL, is Daley's personal and political charter. Buddha though he is, he gets things done. Says a leading businessman: "Nothing ever happens in Chicago without landing on Daley's desk for decision." Daley, with characteristic caution, agrees. "We participate in one way or another." he says, "in the important things...
Science & Glory. More important than ever are alumni of the Ecole Polytechnique, another creation of the Revolution near the Panthéon, which maintains the military air given it by Napoleon (motto: "For fatherland, science and glory."). Commanded by a general, and obliged to serve for six years in the armed forces, the school's 600 students observe strict military discipline, wear cocked hats and swords on parade. A.W.O.L. students get a highly deterrent punishment-loss of the right to take an exam...
...shelf he noticed two copies of Fish I Have Known by Arthur H. Beavan, author of Birds I Have Known and Animals I Have Known. Pulling out the first edition, Gridley looked with warmth at the Fearing bookplate, which showed a green trout leaping from a green stream. The motto read: "Wish Us the Wind South," and underneath were the words: "This book is not to be sold or exchanged...
...geography chairs in the major universities, there is the Hakluyt Society, which publishes the narratives of famous explorers and adventurers. Raleigh A. Skelton has been secretary of the Society for sixteen years; and to support his infectious belief in the romance of maps he might quote the Society motto...
Divorced. By the Countess of Coventry, 28, the former "Mimi" Medart, a St. Louis restaurateur's playgirl daughter: the eleventh Earl of Coventry, 28, an ex-Grenadier Guards lieutenant whose family motto is "Candidly and Constantly"; on uncontested grounds of adultery; after seven years of marriage, one son; in London...