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Word: namee (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...gives me great pleasure to learn that plans for your new center are proceeding forward with out hitch. It does to me, however, that a more suitable name might be found for the model community than "Pusey Bluffs." Since to town won't be more than about six feet above sea level, wouldn't "Pusey Flats" be wiser...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Secret Files | 5/12/1969 | See Source »

Until 1938, the capital of the world's richest nation had no art museum worthy of the name. In that year Financier Andrew Mellon gave the Government his $50 million art collection and added another $16 million to build a museum to house it. Today the National Gallery is one of the world's great collections, and, in large measure, the man who has guided its growth and controlled its quality is Director John Walker, 62, who last week announced his retirement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Museums: Change at the National Gallery | 5/9/1969 | See Source »

...major television networks coolly tuned out Ben Casey and Dr. Kildare in 1966. But the medical fellow they really wanted to get rid of-and could not -is a real-life Dr. Killjoy by the name of Donald Frederickson. Dr. Frederickson is a 34-year-old public-health official who began campaigning two years ago to change the TV image of cigarettes. Among his proposals: "admired characters" like Johnny Carson should stop smoking on camera, and TV series heroes should decline cigarettes offered them during climactic scenes. That, said Frederickson, might help dissuade the 4,000 young Americans who begin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Public Service: Calling Dr. Killjoy | 5/9/1969 | See Source »

Having no heir to whom he felt that he could leave his crown, he proclaimed Billy, who was then off in the Pacific fighting the Japanese, his legal son. Thus, at 30, Billy changed his name and in 1944 became a true Prince...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Takeovers: The Prince, the General And the Greyhound | 5/9/1969 | See Source »

...realized that the kingdom was big enough for both of them. They called a meeting and asked Billy to abdicate. When he refused, they threatened to take him before the high judges. Rather than risk a fight that he was likely to lose anyway, Billy-still a prince in name and by no means a pauper-gave up his throne last week. After his abdication, the Trustbusters said that they would nonetheless try to stop General from taking over the empire. But Prince was gone, having retreated to clip his coupons and count all his money. Moral: Uneasy lies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Takeovers: The Prince, the General And the Greyhound | 5/9/1969 | See Source »

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