Word: nugents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lampoon's failure is particularly sad because it leaves the absurdity of the Vietnam war virtually untouched by American humorists. Indeed, the one great exception remains the Lampoon's 1965 parody of Time magazine. What humor there is in the war is exploited by Conn Nugent in his "Personal Essay," an unlikely letter from a Leverett House senior to the Duke University Graduate School of Business Administration...
John Manopoli and Ralph Miller of 2G led the graduate entries with 13 wrong, while defending champions Conn Nugent and Chris Mortenson retained the tandem title with 15 misses...
...Nugent in 2000. At Killeen, he felt most at home sentimentally: "My grandfather drove his longhorns across this prairie on the way to Abilene." But it was at Bal Harbour that he was more comfortable politically. Amid the shards of the Johnsonian consensus, most of big labor remains loyal. A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany has already endorsed the President for reelection. The latest federation convention whooped through a resolution supporting the Administration's Viet Nam policy and, with Walter Reuther absent, there was barely a skeptic to be found. Instead of end-the-war placards, Johnson spotted one promoting...
Bess Abell is admirably qualified to organize White House social functions. The daughter of former Kentucky Governor (and later U.S. Senator) Earle Clements, she supervised 34 state luncheons and dinners this year alone, and prepared Luci Baines Nugent's wedding last year. "Luci's was a dress rehearsal for Lynda's wedding," she says. Formal weddings are a vicarious thrill for Mrs. Abell: she eloped with Attorney Tyler Abell, 35, a former Assistant Postmaster General. "Working on these two weddings," says Bess, "has given me no regrets...
...degree for her "concern for the natural beauty of this country." Next day at Yale, Lady Bird boosted her program again despite a silent "vigil" by 1,000 Yalies. The university came across with no honorary degree, but the Political Union did contribute a baby gift for Grandson Lyn Nugent -a stuffed musical bulldog that plays Boola-Boola...