Word: neighborly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Life in a Cellar. To Bethany, there was always something special about the Buntings. A neighbor recalls that "you could never do anything for them." They did things for others. It was Mary who ran the 4-H club, got the swimming hole dug, rounded up boys to fight a forest fire, served on the school board. She sparked the building of a regional high school. Henry Bunting played the fiddle at square dances, and at night made long rounds as the town's volunteer doctor...
...Friendly Neighbor. At the constitutional convention in 1787, James Madison was a quiet champion of a strong central government. His voluminous notes were by far the best record taken of the convention. When some states balked at ratifying the Constitution, Madison helped Alexander Hamilton and John Jay in writing some of the most cogent political propaganda in U.S. history-the anonymous articles called the Federalist papers...
...with weapons, and many of the diggers are prepared to use them, if necessary, on intruders who might try to join them. The Rev. L.C. McHugh, an editor of the Jesuit magazine America, recently stirred the coals of the argument by declaring that people who attempt to storm their neighbors' shelters are nothing more than "unjust aggressors" and should be "repelled with whatever means will effectively deter their assault." Last week Washington's Episcopal Bishop Angus Dun answered McHugh. "I do not see how any Christian conscience can condone a policy which puts supreme emphasis on saving your...
...clubs, leads a quiet life with his wife at their Georgian-Victorian country home. His only hobby, says a close friend, "is making Jaguar even better." He is also determined to make it bigger. To get more plant space, he last year bought Jaguar's venerable neighbor, the Daimler Co. Last week Sir William made his boldest move yet: he bought the Coventry plant of defunct Guy Motors, Ltd., where he plans to diversify into trucks. Aim: to have cart horses as well as thoroughbreds to offer when and if Britain gets into the Common Market...
Died. Sumner Welles, 68, urbane, aristocratic architect of the U.S. Good Neighbor Policy toward Latin America, a Grot-on-and-Harvard product who headed the State Department's Latin American Affairs Division at 29, as Under Secretary of State became the confidant of Family Friend Franklin Roosevelt and served as personal presidential emissary on fruitless prewar missions to Hitler and Mussolini, only to be forced into resignation-and virtual retirement-in 1943, when Secretary of State Cordell Hull delivered a "him or me" ultimatum to F.D.R.; in Bernardsville, N.J. Condemned by critics as the embodiment of traditional striped-pants...