Word: naming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...graduated from the Newton (Mass.) College of the Sacred Heart in 1964, and did public relations for the Norfolk County Tuberculosis and Health Association before she got a job, through an employment agency, in Ted Kennedy's office. Discussing the inquest, she remarks: "Anonymity is the name of the game when you're a staff person, and it's very tough to all of a sudden be in the public...
Talking about his graduation next June from Amherst and the end of his IIS student deferment, David Eisenhower let drop the fact that he had been advised to take his military service in the Navy instead of the Army. And who in the name of Dwight D. Eisenhower was responsible for that bit of treachery? "My grandfather," answered David. Then he hastened to explain that he really has not made up his mind; he is considering a career as a lawyer, and that was why Ike advised the Navy. An Army man, after all, ought to make the service...
...academic conferences and press conferences for the past six months. Among them: > "When I see some of these students -'unwashed' and 'unkempt'-I cannot help thinking: There goes another youngster who, as an infant, was practically scrubbed out of existence by his parents in the name of good hygiene and loving care." > "In most of the small group of leaders of the radical left, intellect was developed at much too early an age, and at the expense of their emotional development. Although exceedingly bright, some remained emotionally fixated at the age of the temper tantrum...
Generally Pleased. Burch will replace Chairman Rosel H. Hyde, whose seven-year term expired June 30 but who agreed to remain on the job pending the appointment of his successor. The President is also expected to name Robert Wells, president and general manager of radio station KIUL in Garden City, Kans., to fill the FCC seat being vacated by Commissioner James J. Wadsworth. Because both new appointees will replace Republicans, Nixon presumably will have to wait until next summer, when Democrat Kenneth Cox's term expires, before he gains control of the seven-member commission...
...great Victorian know-it-alls, the proud and prodigious polymaths of an age whose greatness is now seen to lie in the clever children who wrote its obituary? As these collections again attest, the cleverest child of all was George Bernard Shaw, who could invent a new name for God and tackle anything and anyone, even though he could never learn to eat and drink or make love like other men, occasionally shut up, or even master the bicycle...